Leak Detection in Sutton

Most of Sutton was built between the wars, so Benhilton, Rosehill, Sutton Common and Belmont are 1930s semis and detached houses with solid ground floors. South Sutton has larger Edwardian houses on wide roads, and the streets nearest the town centre have Victorian terraces along with 1960s and recent apartment blocks. A great many of the semis have been extended at the back with open plan kitchens on underfloor heating, and loft bathrooms over bedrooms. The usual leaks are a heating loop in a new screed, an old copper heating pipe in the original floor, and bath or shower seals in the loft.

We cover SM1 and SM2, including Benhilton, Rosehill, Sutton Common, Belmont, South Sutton and the town centre. Calls are typically a warm patch on a kitchen floor, a boiler losing pressure, a ceiling stain under a loft bathroom, or a bill that has jumped. Underfloor heating loops are isolated at the manifold and pressure tested one at a time, then the thermal camera shows where the loop runs and where the heat is escaping. Original heating pipes in screed are tested with tracer gas. Bathroom fittings are dye tested and checked with the moisture meter from below.

Parking on Sutton's residential roads is usually straightforward, with controlled zones close to the station and the High Street where we use a visitor permit or carry the kit in. We protect the floor and work methodically through the house, marking the leak point before any tile is lifted so the opening stays small. You receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, written to support a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.