Services

Every leak, found the least invasive way

Each survey starts with the method most likely to find your leak without opening anything up, and nothing is opened until the leak has been pinpointed. Choose a service for photos, what is included and honest answers to the usual questions.

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What we detect, and how

Thermal imaging camera screen showing a hot water pipe glowing inside a wall

Water leak detection

Hidden leaks behind walls, under floors and in ceilings, pinpointed with thermal, acoustic and tracer gas kit before anything is opened up.

Water leaks

Thermal image of a heating pipe run under the floor, showing the exact line to open up

Central heating leak detection

A boiler that keeps dropping pressure means water is escaping somewhere in the heating circuit. We find the pipe or fitting and fix it.

Heating leaks

Thermal camera held over a floor with the underfloor heating pipes showing in orange

Underfloor heating leak detection

A leaking underfloor heating loop is found by isolating circuits at the manifold, then mapping the pipes with thermal imaging and tracer gas.

Underfloor heating

Water spraying from a burst underground pipe exposed in a small excavation

Water mains and underground leak detection

Leaking supply pipes under driveways, gardens and concrete floors, located with acoustic and tracer gas kit so only one small excavation is needed.

Mains & underground

Thermal camera showing a leaking hot pipe under a kitchen floor

Thermal imaging leak surveys

A thermal imaging camera shows warm pipe runs and cool wet patches through floors and walls, so the leak is seen before anything is opened.

Thermal imaging

Tracer gas detector on a lifted floorboard with the pipe exposed between the joists

Tracer gas leak detection

A safe hydrogen and nitrogen mix is put into the drained pipe, rises through the floor or wall and is picked up by the detector directly above the leak.

Tracer gas

Acoustic leak detector with ground microphone on a tiled floor reading 505

Acoustic leak detection

A ground microphone listens for the sound of water escaping under pressure through floors, concrete and paving, and the reading peaks directly over the leak.

Acoustic

Small pipe chase opened in a wall exactly where the leak was located

Trace and access insurance reports

Leak detection carried out and documented the way insurers expect, with a report your claims handler can act on straight away.

Insurance reports

Specialist help

Particular situations, explained

What a survey involves, what it costs and how it is priced, same-day visits, landlords, blocks of flats, commercial buildings, and the tests behind the main methods.

Leak detection specialists

A specialist firm that locates hidden water and heating leaks with dedicated kit, repairs them and writes the report your insurer needs.

Specialists

Tracer gas detector sampling through a carpet without lifting it

Non-invasive leak detection

Leaks located through tiles, carpet, plaster and concrete, so the only opening made is one small spot at the marked point.

Non-invasive

Pressure test gauges connected to a heating system

Leak detection survey

What a leak survey involves from arrival to report, what to have ready, how long it takes and what happens if nothing shows.

The survey

Emergency and same-day leak detection

Water through a ceiling or a meter spinning fast needs locating quickly, and same-day and next-day surveys are usually available.

Same-day

Thermal camera showing a hot spot on a kitchen floor in front of the cooker

Leak detection cost

A fixed price agreed before we come out, no hourly rate, and a clear account of what is and is not included.

Cost

Thermal camera picking out a pipe under a wooden floor by a doorway

Pre-purchase leak survey

A leak check on the house you are buying, covering the pipework a homebuyer survey does not test, before you exchange.

Before you buy

Acoustic leak detector reading 599 against an outside wall on a mains water leak

Commercial leak detection

Hidden leaks in commercial buildings, blocks of flats and landlord portfolios, located and reported for agents and insurers.

Commercial

Leak detection for landlords and letting agents

Hidden leaks in rented homes found with the tenant present, reported to the landlord or agent and written up for the insurer.

Landlords

Thermal imaging camera showing the temperature pattern of a hallway floor

Leak detection in blocks of flats

Leaks between flats and from communal pipes traced to one source, with a report that makes clear whose pipe it is.

Blocks of flats

Pressure testing and pipe tracing

A nitrogen pressure test on each system shows which one is losing water, then the pipe run is mapped before a single board is lifted.

Pressure testing

Tracer gas detector held against a damp patch on a painted wall

Moisture surveys

A moisture meter maps how far the water has spread, tells wet from dry and shows the direction it came from.

Moisture survey

Green dye test in a bath to trace a leak from the waste or overflow

Dye testing

Coloured dye in the bath, shower tray or basin shows which route the water is taking, without removing a single tile.

Dye tests

Borescope camera screen showing the void under a floor

Borescope camera inspections

A camera on a flexible cable looks inside floor voids, walls and ceilings through a small hole or an existing gap.

Borescope

The kit

Pinpointed before anything is opened up

Every survey uses whichever combination of these finds your leak fastest. The photos are from our own jobs.

Thermal imaging camera

Shows hot pipe runs and cool wet areas through floors and plaster, so a whole property can be surveyed quickly and the search narrowed to one area.

Acoustic leak detection kit with the floor microphone set up over a suspected leak

Sewerin Aquaphon acoustic ground microphone

Listens for water escaping under pressure through tiles, concrete and paving. The reading peaks directly over the leak on live mains and supply pipes.

Sewerin Variotec tracer gas detector

Finds hydrogen tracer gas rising from a leak in a drained pipe, through screed, soil and floor coverings. It is the method for plastic, buried and silent leaks.

Borescope camera

A camera on a flexible cable that looks into floor voids, behind bath panels and along pipe chases through a small opening, before anything larger is made.

Pressure gauges, dye and test strips

Nitrogen pressure tests isolate the leaking system, coloured dye traces bathroom leaks to their source, and test strips tell mains water from heating water.

How it works

From your first call to a leak you can see in the report

Tell us what you are seeing

Call or WhatsApp with a few photos and a line about the symptoms. We ask a handful of questions, agree a fixed price and book the survey, usually for the same or the next day.

Work out which system is leaking

On arrival we pressure test the mains, hot water and heating, check the meter and test the escaping water, so we know what we are looking for before the detection starts.

Pinpoint the leak without opening up

Thermal imaging, the acoustic ground microphone and tracer gas are used as the pipework dictates until the leak is marked on the floor or wall.

Report, and repair if you want it

You get a written report with readings, thermal images and photographs, ready for a trace and access claim. If you want the leak fixed, we open that one spot and repair it.

Act now

Still losing water? Every day adds to the damage.

Call now and we will tell you straight away whether it needs a same-day visit. Or send a photo of the stain, the meter or the boiler gauge on WhatsApp.

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