Maybe you’ve noticed a ridiculously high water bill or heard water running that you can’t find, maybe you’ve noticed warmth on a particular part of the flooring; when it comes to unusual predicaments like these, you need to know whether or not you’re dealing with a slab leak. What to do if you might have a slab leak?
Don’t worry, we won’t just start busting! Our men are trained to locate the leak first.
These are some of the easy things we do to find out where your leak is:
Is it on the hot or cold water side?
Did the meter stop? If it did, you have a hot water slab leak.
There may be more detective work involved:
We hook a signal generator on the water pipe and follow it with our pipe locating device. Once we know where the pipe is we take our infrared heat sensor and find the hot spots along that line.
Then we must determine the depth of the leak with our pipe locating device. We use our geodesic headset and listen for the leak. If it is difficult to hear we will pressurize the system as the harder flow of water will make the leak easier to hear.
Not until this point will we break your floor and repair. We silver solder all joints below floor. We backfill with sand and pour back floor after testing. We do not put back finished flooring.
I hope this takes some of the anxiety out of your slab leak problem. Things never really are as bad as they seem. Hire the right plumber and you’ll be put at ease through the whole thing.