Leak Detection in Romford and Hornchurch

Romford town centre is flats and conversions, with Victorian terraces close in and 1930s semis spreading outwards. Hornchurch and Ardleigh Green are interwar semis and bungalows, many extended into the loft or the garden. Emerson Park is large detached houses on wide plots with long driveways, often with private supply pipes running thirty metres or more and heating systems added to over the years. Elm Park is a planned 1930s estate of semis and terraces on solid floors. Long supply pipes, buried heating circuits and bathrooms over living rooms are the usual sources of trouble.

We cover RM1, RM11 and RM12. The common calls are a meter that keeps spinning, a damp patch on a ground floor that comes back after drying, and a boiler that needs topping up every week. For supply pipes under Emerson Park driveways we listen with the acoustic ground microphone and confirm with tracer gas at the stop tap and inspection chambers. Heating leaks under solid floors in the semis are traced with the thermal camera and a nitrogen pressure test. In the town centre flats, dye and moisture tests show which bathroom is at fault.

Parking near Romford station and the market is permit controlled, while Hornchurch, Emerson Park and Elm Park mostly have driveways or unrestricted roads. The equipment comes in on a trolley either way, so the walk from the van is not a problem. A typical house survey here takes a few hours. The written report contains photographs, thermal images and readings, keeps detection, access and repair separate, and is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.