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The phone call
Charlie asks what has happened and for how long. A wet patch, a hissing noise, a bill, a gauge. The answers decide what he brings and where he starts.
Leak detection in March
March grew up around the railway and the old river, and its pipes run through ground that never stops moving. Charlie finds the leak with cameras, listening equipment and tracer gas, then marks it.
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March was a railway town. The terraces off Station Road and around the old Whitemoor yards were built for railway families, and the bungalows and estates that spread out from them came later as the town grew along the old course of the Nene. Both sorts hide pipework in places nobody can see.
The ground under all of it is fen. Peat shrinks when it dries and swells when it wets, and a pipe laid through it is pulled a little every season. Joints on supply pipes give first. Anglian Water's pipe stops at the meter; the run from there to the house is the one that leaks, and it is yours.
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Charlie asks what has happened and for how long. A wet patch, a hissing noise, a bill, a gauge. The answers decide what he brings and where he starts.
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Meter test on the mains, pressure test on the heating. In a few minutes one has shown the loss and the other has been cleared. Nothing is opened to find that out.
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The thermal camera takes it to a room, the microphones or the gas take it to a point. Charlie marks the point, photographs it, and explains how big the hole needs to be.
The camera picks up the heat of a leaking hot pipe through carpet and laminate, and the cold of a wet patch inside a wall. A whole bungalow comes down to one square metre of floor.
Water escaping under pressure makes a steady noise that carries through peat, clay and concrete. Ground microphones hear it from the surface and the loudest spot is the leak.
For a heating leak that is too slow to make a sound, the system is drained and filled with hydrogen and nitrogen. The gas leaves at the fault, rises, and the detector finds it.
March leak detection jobs cluster in the PE15 postcode, which has given us three, the latest in February 2026, and the PE26 area has added the March West and Benwick ward. We have found leaks in Doddington and Wimblington to the south, in Chatteris North and Manea, and in Elm and Christchurch on the Wisbech side.
Chatteris is 15 minutes south, Wisbech 20 minutes north and Whittlesey along the A605 to the west. Ramsey sits across the fen beyond Benwick, and Peterborough is at the far end of the same road. Wimblington, Doddington, Manea and Benwick are covered on a March visit.
If your policy includes trace and access, it pays for finding the leak and for the floor or ground that has to be opened to reach it. Charlie's written report records the tests, the thermal images, the method and the marked position, with photographs. That is the evidence the insurer asks for.
Usually within 24 to 48 hours. March is an hour or so from Haverhill, and leak detection in Cambridgeshire has him in the Fenland towns regularly, so a same day visit is possible when the diary lines up.
On a bungalow with a solid floor that is nearly always a heating pipe in the screed. The thermal camera will show the warm area and tracer gas will confirm the point, and Charlie marks a small square to open.
Only up to the boundary, which is normally the meter by the pavement. From there to the house it is your pipe and your repair. Charlie traces it with the ground microphone and marks the leak so you dig one hole.
Yes. Commercial premises are treated the same way as houses: meter and pressure tests, then the camera and the microphones. The report suits a commercial claim.
Then there is no fee for the detection. If the mains and the heating both hold under test, Charlie will say so and tell you what he thinks is causing the damp, which on fen ground is sometimes the ground itself.
Call Charlie on 07897 020 680 and tell him what you have seen.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.