Leak Detection in Stevenage

Bedwell, Broadwater, Chells, Pin Green, Shephall, Symonds Green, St Nicholas and Martins Wood were built from the 1950s to the 1970s. Most have solid concrete ground floors with heating pipes laid in the screed. After decades of heating and cooling, a copper pipe in screed can corrode and lose water with no visible sign. The Old Town has Victorian and older houses with suspended timber floors and long copper runs. Great Ashby and the newer estates on the edge of town have plastic pipework, pressurised heating systems and in some houses underfloor heating.

We cover SG1 and SG2, including the Old Town, Bedwell, Broadwater, Chells, Pin Green, Shephall, Symonds Green, St Nicholas, Martins Wood, Poplars and Great Ashby. The usual call is a boiler losing pressure with no drip anywhere. We pressure test the heating circuit to confirm the loss, put tracer gas into the drained pipework and follow it across the floor with the detector. Thermal imaging shows the pipe layout first so the search is quick. A wet patch at the front of the house usually points to the supply pipe, which we find with the acoustic ground microphone.

Most Stevenage neighbourhoods have garages and parking courts a short walk from the house, so we bring the equipment in on a trolley. In the Old Town parking is tighter near the high street. We protect floors and keep any opening up to the marked point. The written report includes photographs, thermal images and the pressure readings, and states the cause and the location. It is prepared for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance, and we are happy to speak to the loss adjuster about how the leak was found.