Leak Detection in Manchester, Found Without Digging Up the Floor

Leak detection in Manchester: what the price includes

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  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.

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  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.

Local conditions we work around

What we find in Manchester is usually corrosion, pinholes in pre-1980 copper that soft water has been slowly working on, rather than the scale-driven failures common in London. Terraces with cellars make this comparatively easy: a leak on a ground-floor run is frequently audible and visible from below, so it can be pinpointed without lifting a single floorboard. Where floors are solid and pipework is buried, thermal and acoustic tracing avoids the exploratory damage that makes a small repair expensive.

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.

Leak detection in Manchester, your questions