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Describe it to Charlie
Tell him what you have noticed: a damp patch, a dropping boiler gauge, a Thames Water letter. He asks about the floor type and whether there is underfloor heating.
Leak detection in Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough leak detection from an engineer who tests the supply pipe and the heating before tracing anything. Charlie finds the leak, marks it and writes it up for your insurer.
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Thames Water supply pipes
Chilterns villages covered
Tell us what you have noticed and where. We ring you back to talk it through. No find, no fee.
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Princes Risborough sits at the foot of the Chiltern scarp, and the chalk under the town gives it hard water. Limescale builds up in heating systems and at compression joints, so a boiler that keeps losing pressure is a familiar call from here.
The town has an old centre around the market house, 1960s and 1970s estates on the Longwick and Wades Park sides, and villages such as Monks Risborough and Lacey Green up the hill. Most jobs are booked within 24 to 48 hours.
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Tell him what you have noticed: a damp patch, a dropping boiler gauge, a Thames Water letter. He asks about the floor type and whether there is underfloor heating.
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We watch the meter with every tap off, then pressure test the heating on its own. One of the two will show the loss, and that is the only system we trace.
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The camera, listening gear and tracer gas take us to the exact spot. We mark it, show you the readings and send a written report with photographs.
The camera shows pipe runs under floors and behind plaster by their temperature. A leaking heating pipe shows warm; a wet area from a supply leak shows cold. We follow the image to the source.
A ground microphone hears a pressurised supply pipe leaking under a path, drive or front garden. We listen along the run from the stop tap and the sound is loudest directly above the leak.
We drain the heating or underfloor loop, fill it with a safe hydrogen and nitrogen mix and track where it surfaces. The sensor reacts above the split, so your plumber opens one small area.
Hard water does a lot of the damage around Princes Risborough. In a 1970s house on the Longwick side a boiler lost pressure every few days and the plumber had changed the valves twice. A pressure test showed the circuit was still losing water, the thermal camera found a warm patch under the hall floor, and tracer gas placed a pinholed copper pipe in the screed. One small opening and the leak was fixed. In the old centre a brick cottage had water showing at the bottom of a wall. The meter turned with everything off, and the ground microphone found a leaking lead supply pipe under the path.
From Princes Risborough we cover Monks Risborough, Longwick, Lacey Green, Loosley Row, Bledlow, Saunderton and Great Kimble, and we go on to Wendover, Great Missenden and High Wycombe on the same trip.
If your home policy includes trace and access, the insurer pays to locate the leak and to make good whatever was opened to reach it. Our report gives the leak location, the method, thermal images, photographs and a list of what was disturbed, which is what the loss adjuster needs.
Yes. We shut the stop tap inside the house and watch the meter at the boundary. If it still turns, the supply pipe between the two is leaking. We then listen along it with a ground microphone and mark the point for repair.
Often. Air gets into a sealed system when water is leaving it somewhere. We pressure test the circuit, then follow the pipework with the thermal camera and tracer gas to find the split. Hard water here makes joints a common culprit.
Yes. Lacey Green, Loosley Row, Bledlow and Saunderton are all part of a Princes Risborough visit. Rural houses there often have long private supply pipes, and listening along them is exactly what the acoustic equipment is for, so nothing changes.
Bookings are usually within 24 to 48 hours. We plan Chilterns visits together and bring the full set of equipment on the first trip. One visit normally finds and marks the leak for you.
You pay nothing for detection if we do not find a leak; no find, no fee is the rule. If the meter is still and the heating holds pressure we will say so, and point you towards the likely cause, sometimes a roof or a gutter.
Ring us on 07897 020 680.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.