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Test before you trace
The stop tap is closed and the meter read, then the heating is checked on its own gauge. That shows which system is losing water before anything is unpacked from the van.
Leak detection in Linton
Charlie covers leak detection in Linton, Balsham, Hildersham and the Abingtons, with visits usually booked within 24 to 48 hours.
No find, no fee
Usually booked within 24 to 48 hours
Balsham and the Abingtons covered
Three quick steps. No find, no fee, and Charlie gets back to you with a straight answer.
No find, no fee
24/7 enquiries
Non-invasive methods
Reports for insurance claims
Linton is a large village on the A1307, with a High Street of timber framed and brick cottages, Victorian terraces off it, and 20th century estates on the Cambridge side. The old houses have much-altered plumbing and the supply pipe often runs under a long front path.
Cambridge Water supplies Linton, Balsham and the villages towards Sawston. The chalk water is hard, so older pipework scales up and pinholes with age. A leak that is damaging a floor is usually booked within 24 to 48 hours.
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The stop tap is closed and the meter read, then the heating is checked on its own gauge. That shows which system is losing water before anything is unpacked from the van.
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In a cottage on the High Street the pipes rarely go where you think. The thermal camera and a pipe locator show the real run under the floor or path before listening starts.
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Acoustic listening on the supply, tracer gas on the heating. The leak is brought down to a hand-sized spot, chalked and photographed, and Charlie explains the repair before leaving.
Picks out heating pipes through old brick floors and modern screed alike, and shows where the heat spreads sideways from a leaking joint. In a timber framed cottage it finds pipes in walls.
The tool for a supply pipe under a long front path. The ground microphone hears the leak under pressure and the signal peaks over the break, which is where the path is lifted.
A drained heating loop is filled with a safe gas, which rises through the floor at the leak. The detector marks the spot without lifting a single tile or board.
The CB21 postcode that covers Linton is one of our busiest, with leaks found in Balsham and out to Ashdon on the Essex side, mostly older houses on long supply pipes and heating circuits in solid floors. South of the village we have traced leaks in the CB10 area towards Duxford, and back along the A1307 in Bumpstead and Kedington.
From Linton Charlie covers Balsham, Hildersham, Great and Little Abington, Bartlow, Horseheath, Castle Camps and the villages through to Sawston and the Shelfords. Burwell and Newmarket are reached on the same side of Cambridge.
Trace and access cover pays for finding the leak and for reinstating the floor, wall or path that was opened to reach it. Charlie's report sets out the isolation tests, the thermal images and photographs, and the marked leak position, so insurers can see the opening was no bigger than needed.
Charlie starts with the meter and the boiler gauge to confirm whether it is the mains or the heating that is losing water. He then traces the run with thermal imaging, acoustic listening or tracer gas, depending on the pipework and the floor, and marks the spot so only that area is opened up. Linton visits are usually booked within 24 to 48 hours.
Usually a leak. True rising damp is rarer than people think, and a damp patch that is worse near a radiator or a pipe run almost always has a pipe behind it. The meter and gauge tests settle the question in 20 minutes.
All of them. Balsham, Hildersham, the Abingtons, Bartlow and Horseheath are a few minutes from Linton, and Charlie has found leaks in Balsham more than once. Rural properties on long private supply pipes are a regular part of the work.
Cambridge Water, which looks after the main in the road and the pipe up to the stop tap at your boundary. From that stop tap to your house the pipe is the owner’s, and that is where Charlie traces leaks.
Nothing. No find, no fee means a survey that does not locate a leak is not charged. Because the isolation tests at the start confirm that water is actually being lost, Charlie rarely starts a trace that cannot be finished.
He is 12 minutes away and will tell you on the phone whether a visit is needed.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.