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A conversation first
Charlie takes the call himself and asks what you have noticed. He can usually tell from the symptoms whether it is mains or heating, and that decides what gets loaded.
Leak detection in Huntingdon
Charlie tests the mains and the heating in Huntingdon, finds the leak with the camera, microphones or tracer gas, and marks exactly where to open up.
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Visits within 24 to 48 hours
Tell us what you have noticed and where. We ring you back to talk it through. No find, no fee.
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Reports for insurance claims
Huntingdon leak detection covers two very different towns. The old one is Georgian: the High Street, Market Hill and the streets down to the river, with brick houses on shallow footings and pipework replaced in sections over a long time. The other is the overspill town built from the 1960s for London families, on the Oxmoor side and beyond, where heating pipes sit in concrete floors.
Underfloor heating leak detection in Huntingdon ranges from 1960s heating pipes buried in a concrete slab to modern plastic loops in screed. Both lose water into the floor with nothing to see, and both are found the same way: the camera shows the layout and tracer gas shows the hole.
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Charlie takes the call himself and asks what you have noticed. He can usually tell from the symptoms whether it is mains or heating, and that decides what gets loaded.
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A meter test with every outlet closed and a pressure test on the heating take a few minutes. One shows the loss; the other is ruled out.
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Thermal imaging narrows the search to a room, acoustic listening or tracer gas to a point. That point is marked and photographed, and the report follows the same day.
Heat shows through floor coverings and plaster, so the camera picks out the warm line of a heating pipe and the wet patch where it has failed.
External leak detection in Huntingdon is mostly listening. A ground microphone picks up the sound of water escaping under a drive or lawn, and the loudest point is the break.
A hydrogen and nitrogen mix is put into the drained heating circuit. It escapes at the smallest hole, rises through the floor and the probe shows where.
On the Oxmoor side a 1960s house had a boiler that lost pressure every few days. A pressure test confirmed the loss, the thermal camera showed the pipe layout in the concrete floor, and tracer gas placed the split in a copper pipe under the kitchen doorway. In a Georgian house near Market Hill water was appearing at skirting level in a room with no plumbing, and the camera traced a warm line under the floor to a heating pipe replaced in sections decades ago. In a block of flats near the station we tested each flat in turn and found a weeping joint on a shared riser, so the report said whose pipe it was.
Godmanchester is across the river and St Ives 10 minutes east. St Neots is down the A1, Sawtry up it, and Cambourne on the A428. Brampton, the Stukeleys, Hartford and the Hemingfords are all covered as part of a Huntingdon booking.
Trace and access cover pays to locate a hidden leak and to make good the damage done reaching it. Our report is the document that claim rests on: the tests and their readings, the thermal images, the method and the exact marked position, written for a claims handler rather than a plumber.
Normally within 24 to 48 hours, and sometimes the same day if we are already in Huntingdon, St Ives or St Neots. Leak detection in Cambridgeshire takes us that way most weeks.
Probably not. Houses from that period usually have heating pipes in the concrete floor, and when the copper fails the water goes into the slab. We pressure test, scan the floors and confirm the point with tracer gas before anyone touches the boiler.
Yes. Brampton, the Hemingfords, Buckden, the Offords and the Stukeleys are all part of the same visit. Water leak detection in Huntingdon villages often means a long private supply pipe beyond the Anglian Water meter.
That depends on where it is, and that is what the survey establishes. Shared supply pipes and heating risers can mean the water is coming from another flat. The report states which pipe has failed and whose it is.
No. If the meter and the pressure test both hold and the cameras find nothing, you pay nothing for the detection. We will still tell you what we think is going on.
Ring 07897 020 680 and we will give you a time.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.