Leak Detection in Wimbledon

The houses around Wimbledon Village and the Common are large Victorian and Edwardian properties, many extended with basements and lower ground floor kitchens. Wimbledon Park and South Wimbledon are rows of Edwardian terraces with suspended timber floors and original pipe routes. Raynes Park, West Wimbledon and Cottenham Park were mostly built in the 1930s with solid floors, and Merton Park is an older garden suburb of substantial houses. Colliers Wood has newer flats. In the bigger houses the weak points are underfloor heating in a new extension, a loft bathroom above bedrooms, and basement tanking that hides a leaking pipe.

We cover SW19 and SW20, including Wimbledon Park, South Wimbledon, Colliers Wood, Raynes Park, West Wimbledon, Cottenham Park and Merton Park. Calls range from a warm patch on an extension floor to a damp patch that keeps coming back on a basement wall. Underfloor heating loops are isolated one at a time at the manifold and checked with pressure gauges, then the thermal camera shows the loop and the wet spot. For a basement we read moisture across the wall and use tracer gas on the pipes behind it before anyone cuts into the tanking. Terrace heating leaks under boards are picked up by thermal imaging from above.

Much of Wimbledon is permit parking, so we carry the kit in and ask for a visitor voucher if the road needs one. Roads in Raynes Park and West Wimbledon are usually easier. The survey works through the house methodically without opening anything unless a repair is agreed. You receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, structured for a trace and access claim on your buildings insurance.