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Planned work · Manchester · from £240 per survey

Leak Detection in Manchester, Found Without Digging Up the Floor

Finding a hidden leak without taking up the whole floor.

Leak detection in Manchester
No call-out feeNo night or weekend surchargeFixed price before we start12-month workmanship guarantee

Acoustic, thermal and tracer-gas equipment locates water escaping behind a wall or under concrete to within centimetres, so one board comes up instead of six.

What you get

Leak detection in Manchester: what the price includes

  • 01
    Acoustic correlation

    Microphones on the pipework either side of the suspected run listen for the sound a pressurised leak makes, then triangulate the position along it.

  • 02
    Thermal imaging

    A hot-water leak under a solid floor shows as a heat plume long before it shows as damp. The camera maps it without lifting anything.

  • 03
    Tracer gas

    For the difficult ones: hydrogen and nitrogen introduced into the drained pipe escape at the fault and are detected at the surface. It finds leaks the other two methods miss.

  • 04
    Written report for the insurer

    Photographs, position, depth, cause and the repair carried out. Trace-and-access cover exists in most policies but insurers want evidence, and this is the format they accept.

  • 05
    Repair on the same visit

    We are plumbers first. Where the leak is reachable once found, it gets fixed there and then rather than booked for another day.

What this means in Greater Manchester

Local conditions we work around

Soft water is quietly good news for planned work in Manchester: fittings last, showers do not fur up, and a cylinder installed here will outlive the same unit in London. The complication is the housing. Mill and warehouse conversions run long horizontal waste routes that were retrofitted into buildings never designed for bathrooms, and the byelaw terraces share rear drainage where responsibility is genuinely ambiguous. Both are established at the survey rather than discovered halfway through.

Where we do this in Manchester

Covered across Greater Manchester

Same published rate card and the same twelve-month workmanship guarantee everywhere below, there is no postcode loading. Each area has its own page with an arrival time taken from our job records rather than chosen for a website.

Straight answers

Leak detection in Manchester, your questions

How do I know I have a hidden leak?
A water bill that climbs for no reason, a warm patch on a solid floor, boiler pressure that needs topping up weekly, or a meter that moves overnight with every tap off. Any two of those together are worth investigating.
What does leak detection cost in Manchester?
From £240 for a domestic survey including the written report. That is considerably less than the cost of opening up three wrong places, which is the realistic alternative.
Will my insurance pay for it?
Most UK home policies include trace and access cover, which is specifically designed to pay for finding the leak. Check your policy wording, and keep our report, because it is the evidence the claim rests on.
Do you have to dig up the floor?
That is the point of the equipment: we locate first, then open one small area at the right place. Speculative excavation is what happens without detection, not with it.
How long does it take?
Most domestic surveys take one to two hours. Larger properties and buried supply pipes take longer, and we tell you before starting if yours looks like one of those.
Does Manchester water affect what you would fit?
Helpfully, yes. Water this soft means fittings last, showers do not fur up and a cylinder installed here will outlive the same unit in London, so nobody needs a softener. The complication is the buildings: mill and warehouse conversions run long retrofitted waste routes, and the byelaw terraces share rear drainage where responsibility is genuinely ambiguous.
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