Leak Detection in Wembley and Kingsbury

Wembley Park is now a district of new-build towers and mid-rise blocks, with Victorian and Edwardian terraces surviving around Wembley Central and Alperton. Kingsbury, Sudbury and Tokyngton are inter-war semis, many with loft conversions and side extensions, and Colindale has its own cluster of recent flats. In the towers, leaks tend to come from pressed fittings and shower trays, and they show up two floors down. In the semis, the common failure is a heating pipe chased into a wall or buried in a solid floor, or a supply pipe under the front path.

We cover HA9, HA0 and NW9, taking in Wembley, Wembley Park, Alperton, Sudbury, Tokyngton, Kingsbury and Colindale. Calls from flats are usually about a stain on a ceiling and the question of which flat above is responsible. We answer that with dye tests, moisture readings and thermal imaging. In the houses the usual job is a boiler losing pressure, where tracer gas in the drained heating circuit finds the pinhole, or a meter turning with everything off, where the acoustic ground microphone follows the supply pipe to the leak.

Event day parking restrictions apply across much of Wembley, and many roads near the stadium and the stations are permit controlled all week, so we check the date and plan the visit accordingly. The new blocks usually need a concierge to book us in. All the equipment travels on a trolley, so one nearby space or a loading bay is enough. You get a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, set out for a trace and access claim on the buildings policy.