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Settle whose pipe it is
In a converted old town house Charlie isolates the communal supply, each flat's feed and each heating system in turn. The one that loses water is at fault, and the report names it.
Leak detection in Harwich
Harwich is about 50 miles by road from Haverhill, right at the end of the A120. Charlie makes the trip with the kit to trace a leak through a Georgian floor or a 1960s slab.
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Old town and Dovercourt
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Harwich leak detection means two very different towns. The old town on the point is a grid of Georgian and earlier houses, many now flats, with pipework threaded through old brick and under floors that have been down for centuries. Dovercourt and Parkeston behind it are terraces, 1930s semis and post war estates on solid floors.
In the old town the problem is shared pipework and old joints, and the first question is whose pipe it is. In Dovercourt the problem is heating pipe in screed, which shows only as a boiler that will not hold pressure. Essex and Suffolk Water supply Harwich.
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In a converted old town house Charlie isolates the communal supply, each flat's feed and each heating system in turn. The one that loses water is at fault, and the report names it.
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In a single house the mains is shut at the stop tap and the meter checked, then the heating is pressurised and watched. The failing system is the only one traced.
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The thermal camera finds the run, the microphone finds the sound and tracer gas confirms the spot. Charlie marks it, photographs it and writes it up for the insurer if needed.
Thick old walls and floors in the old town hold temperature evenly, so a warm pipe or a cold wet patch stands out clearly. In Dovercourt it maps the heating loops under the screed.
Supply pipes under the narrow pavements and yards of the old town, and under the longer gardens of Dovercourt, are followed with a ground microphone until the hiss peaks over the break.
A heating circuit that is losing pressure silently is drained and charged with a hydrogen mix. The gas finds its way up through boards, flags or screed at the split, and the detector marks it.
Our Tendring jobs so far have been closer to Clacton and Colchester than to Harwich itself, so we say that plainly. We have found leaks in Burrsville, Cann Hall and Coppins, mostly heating pipes under solid floors in post war houses, and in Bluehouse, where a supply pipe had split under a drive. Ardleigh and Little Bromley on the A120 and Alresford and Elmstead have each had jobs.
Manningtree is 15 minutes back along the Stour, Frinton On Sea is a short run down the coast, and Colchester and Wivenhoe sit on the way in from Haverhill. Harwich leak detection is the far end of the leak detection Essex run and shares the diary with all of them.
Trace and access cover pays for locating the leak and for opening up to reach it, and in a converted old town building that can be the expensive part. Charlie's report records the tests, whose pipe failed, the thermal images and the marked position.
Yes. It is about 50 miles and an hour and a quarter from Haverhill, and Charlie covers Tendring regularly. Harwich is booked onto the same run as Clacton and Manningtree, so 24 to 48 hours is normal.
By testing. Charlie isolates your supply and your heating and watches for any loss. If both are tight, your pipes are not the cause, and the report says so. He then checks the communal pipework if access is given.
Pressure test the heating to confirm the loss, run the thermal camera over the floor with the heating on to see the spreading patch, then drain the circuit and use tracer gas to mark the exact point.
Not for finding the leak. Lead is traced like any other pipe. The report will say it is lead, because once lead starts to fail it tends to keep failing, and many owners replace the run.
No. The visit is no find, no fee, and that includes the drive. If every test is clean Charlie tells you what else could be behind the damp.
Call Charlie on 07897 020 680 and say if you are in the old town, Dovercourt or Parkeston.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.