OOur Specific Processes for Underground Leak Detection-Underground Pipe Repair are Second to None!

Underground piping repairs are never something to take lightly. Finding an underground water leak requires very specific leak detection equipment.

• Perform a whole house leak isolation and evaluation looking at leaking toilets, leaking faucets and leaking hose bibs just to name a few. This helps to eliminate water leaks that could be mistaken for underground pipe leaks. Often this solves the leak problem and undergorund leak detection wont even need to be performed..
• We then check for obvious signs of leaks that could be interpreted to need underground pipe location services. Just becuase a floor is wet, the arpet is wet or the tiles and linoleum are discolring doesn't mean that your home is expiernecing an underground water leak. Water leaks tend to travel and a leak bathtub seal or a leak in a pipe under a sink can surface far away. Our average service call is less than $100.
• We will then mark the water meter to see if water is actually flowing while everything is off in the home. If no water is flowing we will then look to outside sources for the appearance of an underground leak. Windows leak, roofs leak and occasionally landscape watering seeps into the home.
• Once we determine that undergorund leak detecting is required we we perform an survey of the underground piping with a state of the art acusoutical leak detector.
• The next step is often a thermal scan of the flooring and walls abutting the flooring for temperature differnces. This can narrow the area of underground leak location and focus is on the spot where a pipe repair is needed.
• If further isolation of the underground piping is required we will perform an electronic line location survey that can pinpoint the location and depth of the undergorund piping int he slab of your home. Most unergorund water leak detection involved pinpointing the leak to within a few inches. This saves you money on secondary damges to yoru home and speed the undergorund leak repairing up.
• We are experts. Once we pinpoint the exact location we can give you options for the leak repair. It coul be a spot repair or a bypass reroute.

In the event that this does not pinpoint the area of leak we will perform a gas insertion survey whereas we pressure the piping with an inert gas and detected the noise where it is escaping from the piping.
Once knowledge of the piping and location of the above ground manifolds are known a proper estimate for pipe repair, pipe replacement or pipe reroute can occur.