Boiler pressure keeps falling
Topping up a combi every few days means the sealed circuit is losing water. In a terrace that is usually a pipe under the ground floor.
Leak detection in Norwich
Charlie covers Norwich regularly. He runs water leak detection Norwich jobs the same way every time: test, listen, scan, prove.
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Norwich has more kinds of housing than anywhere else we cover: Victorian terraces around Unthank Road and Dereham Road, 1930s council houses at Mile Cross, post war estates at Catton Grove and Heartsease, and newer flats along the river. Each puts its pipes somewhere different.
Anglian Water supplies the whole city. Terraces often share supply pipes, so a wet cellar can belong to the house next door. Flats share risers and heating mains. Whose pipe it is comes before where the hole is.
Topping up a combi every few days means the sealed circuit is losing water. In a terrace that is usually a pipe under the ground floor.
Shut every tap and appliance and watch the meter at the boundary. Any movement is water escaping on your side of it.
One patch of tile or laminate warmer than the rest, heating on or off, usually sits over a leaking hot pipe.
Blown plaster low on a wall, a musty cellar or a patch that never dries in a dry week points to a pipe, not the weather.
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Meter test, heating pressure test and a check of the plumbing. In a shared terrace Charlie isolates your supply from the neighbours before trusting a reading.
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Thermal imaging across each floor shows where the pipes run and where something is wrong. For external leak detection Norwich gardens and drives get the ground microphone.
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Tracer gas or acoustic readings confirm the point. Charlie marks it, photographs it and sends a report naming the pipe and the evidence.
Underfloor heating leak detection Norwich new builds need starts here. The camera shows every loop under the screed and the one spot where the pattern breaks or the floor stays wet.
Supply leaks under a Norwich front path or shared passage are heard, not seen. Ground and contact microphones trace the sound along the pipe to its loudest point.
A safe hydrogen blend is pushed through the drained heating circuit. Where it escapes it rises through boards, screed or plaster to a detector.
A Victorian terrace on the west side of the city had a wet cellar that the owner thought was the neighbour's problem. We isolated both supplies with the neighbour's agreement, and the meter showed the loss was on this side, with the ground microphone placing it under the front path. In a riverside block a ground floor flat had water coming through the ceiling. Each flat's heating was tested in turn and the leak was on the shared riser, which the managing agent dealt with on the strength of the report. And at Mile Cross a 1930s house had a warm patch on the kitchen floor, found with the thermal camera and pinned with tracer gas to one spot.
Thorpe St Andrew and Brundall are on the east side, Hethersett and Wymondham on the A11 to the south west, and Poringland on the Bungay road. Norwich leak detection visits take in any of these.
The report our engineer sends after a Norwich visit is built for the claim. It states which pipe leaked, where, how it was confirmed and what opening up was needed, with thermal images attached. Trace and access cover normally pays for the detection and the access work.
It could. Many terraces here share a supply pipe or have pipes under the party wall. Our engineer tests both sides where he can, with the neighbour’s agreement, and says whose pipe is at fault.
Yes, including riverside blocks and conversions. Where the leak is on a shared riser or heating main the management company needs to be involved, and our engineer explains what access he needs.
Finding comes first and is booked as its own visit. Once the point is marked, our engineer can often do the repair, or your own plumber can work from the marked spot and the report.
It depends on the house. A small terrace with one suspect pipe is quick. A large house, underfloor heating or a shared supply takes longer because more testing comes first.
You pay nothing for the detection visit. That is the no find, no fee deal, in Norwich as for leak detection Norfolk wide.
Phone us on 07897 020 680 with your postcode and what you have seen.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.