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Leak Detection Specialist | Trace and Access Experts For England and Wales

Our leak detection specialist will find the water leak and expose it ready for repair; this process is called ‘Trace and Access’ by your insurance company.

Accurate leak detection is very much a specialist job with regard to both finding the leak – using the latest specialist equipment in conjunction with deep experience in leak detection – and documenting the process and the end result in an insurance-friendly report such that your insurance company can see all the relevant information set out clearly and concisely, including a ‘recommendations’ section that details all the steps required to return your property to a dry and undamaged state.

Leaks often result in observable dampness somewhere in the property can be from interior pipework, including cold water and hot water pipes as well as wastes and drains, or can be water from the outside coming in via the floors, walls or roof. Sometimes, there is no obvious sign of water escaping or damp areas in the house and this is particularly common with a continuous pressure loss from unvented central heating systems.

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Benefits

Tracer Gas We can fill pipes with an environmentally friendly, completely safe gas and then use a very sensitive detector to look for gas escaping from a leaking pipe. This can often be a very accurate test and can pinpoint a leak from a pipe buried in a concrete floor to within a few centimetres for example.

Thermography Water pipes constantly produce heat. A leak will change the pipes temperature at the source, revealing the problem. Thermography detects differences in surface temperature, providing our engineers evidence of where the leak is originating from.

Acoustics Water escaping from a hole in a pipe makes a noise and we can sometimes hear this noise using a special microphone and amplifier.

Endoscopy A small camera and light at the end of a long flexible tube allows us to see around corners, investigate hidden cavities and peer behind walls; in this way, we can avoid the need to destroy large areas of ceilings, walls and floors.

Alternatively, you may know that you have a leak from an outside pipe – typically from the pipe supplying the building with cold water – and the requirement is to find out exactly where the leak is occurring.

In all these situations, our leak detection specialists have the equipment and experience to find your leak with the minimum of disruption and to expose it for repair (that can sometimes be carried out on the same visit) as well as producing a comprehensive report designed to inform your insurance company of exactly what water damage has resulted from the escaping water and exactly what needs to be done to get the property back to exactly how it was before the leak started.

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