Leak Detection in Wood Green and Tottenham

Wood Green, Tottenham and South Tottenham are mostly late Victorian terraces, built in long runs and now a mix of family houses, flat conversions and houses in multiple occupation. Post-war estates sit between them, and Tottenham Hale and the Wood Green end of the High Road have new-build blocks. In the terraces the supply pipe usually comes in under the front bay, and the heating was fitted decades after the house, with pipes chased into solid walls and run under the kitchen floor. Those chased pipes are where most of the trouble sits.

We cover N22, N17 and N15, including Wood Green, Noel Park, Bounds Green, Alexandra Park, Tottenham, Bruce Grove, Northumberland Park, Tottenham Hale, Seven Sisters and West Green. Landlords and agents are the usual callers, with a damp wall in a tenanted flat or a water bill that has jumped. For a pipe in a wall chase we use tracer gas and the thermal camera, then mark a small opening. For a shared supply pipe to a converted house we use the acoustic ground microphone along its path. Water test strips tell mains water from heating water.

Almost all of Wood Green and Tottenham is permit controlled, with match day restrictions near the stadium, so a visitor permit or a nearby bay needs sorting before we arrive. The kit comes in on a trolley and we work one room or one flat at a time to keep disruption to tenants short. You receive a written report with photographs, thermal images and readings, prepared for a trace and access claim and for the landlord to pass to the insurer or the freeholder.