They cost money and cause damage; a leak can even leave you cold with no heating or hot water. UK Leak Detection provide an award-winning technical service that insurance policies refer to as 'trace and access'. Most customers have this cover making our service fully refundable under a buildings insurance policy. We are proud of what we do and like to keep our customers informed and help you understand the process of leak detection. You can give us a call straight away or have a browse around the site to find out more about the technology we use, including Thermal Imaging, acoustic leak detection, correlation, tracer gas detection and many others.
If you regularly need to add water to keep the boiler or heating pressure up; this is a sign that there is a leak on your central heating system or boiler. Accurate heating leak detection is key to stop damage to your home, the boiler and heating system. You might think that it is just an inconvenience.but a leak will cause permanent damage to your home, heating system and boiler. UK Leak Detection have skilled engineers to find heating leaks without damaging your home, even through solid concrete!
Leak Detection Specialist is a common internet search when looking to find a professional to locate a leak in your property, but what exactly do they do? Drawing on skills from several other professions such as surveyors, heating engineers, plumbers, roofers and loss adjusters, a Leak Detection Specialist is knowledgeable in many areas. No one skill covers all the elements required to locate all the types of leaks that can cause water damage or a failure or leak on a heating system that often manifests as a loss of boiler pressure.
These blogs are an informal window into what we come up against. UK Leak Detection try to be fair and not book the impossible to get 'any' job booked in. One of the questions we ask is "how long to lose boiler pressure?" to decide if its months, or a few days or even hours. If its months to lose boiler pressure, then February is probably not the best time to try! We also ask "Is there leak seal in the system?" and if so when? On a job recently, when our engineer was pretty much getting rusty gravy out.
Often the first sign of a leak is damp or mould growth, but older properties can be naturally damp, particularly in basement areas converted to habitable rooms. UK Leak Detection's damp investigation uses advanced technologies and our extensive knowledge to find what is the cause and nature of a damp problem. Correct diagnosis is essential, without identifying if it is damp or a leak, how can you deal with it? As part of a damp investigation, samples are taken of surface salts (efflorescence) to find if the ‘damp' is in fact a chlorinated leak from pipework or a sewer, drain or waste pipe.
You are welcome to ask us to review your policy as part of our leak detection process, the terms used are fairly common, and we are pretty familiar with finding the bits you need in the policy documents. About 95% of leak detection is carried out, as part of an insurance claim for water damage. Depending on the insurance company, we find that dealing with an insurance claim can seem to be worse than the leak! Due to insurance companies often making errors in dealing with claims and either leaving customers without cover or underquoting works and costs, we recommend using an independent claims handler who acts in your best interests.
Water mains and supply pipes can leak freely with no surface evidence or signs of damage; they slowly erode foundations and ultimately cause enormous damage to your home and can even spread to your neighbour's property. You might only be aware of a leak after receiving a high water bill or letter from your local water authority informing you of a suspected water leak. The water authority regularly monitors at night to check for water loss with simple acoustic 'listening sticks' or use a monitoring device on your water meter called a 'LeakFrog'.
