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Decide what to test from the call
A high bill points to the mains. A sinking boiler gauge points to the heating. A damp ceiling points to a bathroom. The call sorts out which.
Leak detection in Braintree
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Braintree leak detection splits by age of house. The mill town streets around Bocking are Victorian terraces with copper or lead under suspended floors, where a leak drips into the void and shows as damp at the skirting. Great Notley and the newer estates have heating pipe buried in screed, where nothing shows until the boiler gauge gives up.
People in Braintree often search for anglian water braintree leak complaints when a bill jumps, but the pipe on your side of the stop tap is your responsibility and no water company will trace it. Charlie does, and tells you which side of the boundary the fault is on. Essex and Suffolk Water supply the town.
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A high bill points to the mains. A sinking boiler gauge points to the heating. A damp ceiling points to a bathroom. The call sorts out which.
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The mains is shut at the stop tap and the meter watched, and the heating is pressurised and left for a while. Only the system that is losing water gets traced.
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To detect hidden water leaks Braintree houses tend to have, the camera finds the run, the microphone finds the noisiest point and tracer gas settles the exact spot. It is marked and photographed.
In a Bocking terrace the camera shows a cold damp line creeping along a wall from a leaking pipe behind it. In a Notley house it shows the heating loop that is too wide and warm.
A contact microphone on the stop tap hears the whole supply pipe. A ground microphone then walks the route across the garden until the sound peaks over the break.
When the heating is the culprit, the circuit is drained and filled with a hydrogen and nitrogen mix. The gas escapes at the split and rises through the floor to the detector.
Braintree district is where a lot of our Essex work happens. We have found leaks in Bocking Blackwater, Bocking North and Bocking South, mostly in older houses with pipes under boards. Braintree Central and Beckers Green has had both mains and heating faults. Great Notley and Black Notley gave us buried heating pipes in newer floors, and Gosfield and Greenstead Green, Coggeshall and the Bumpstead side have had supply pipes traced under rural drives.
Witham, Coggeshall and Kelvedon are 10 minutes down the A120 and A12, and Halstead is a short run north. For leak detection in Essex, Braintree usually pairs with one of those on the same day.
If the leak has damaged floors, walls or ceilings, your buildings insurer will normally cover locating it and opening up to reach it under trace and access. Charlie's report gives them the tests run, the readings, the thermal images and the marked position.
Sometimes. Charlie passes through Braintree on the way to much of Essex, so ring in the morning and ask. Otherwise a visit is usually booked within 24 to 48 hours.
Very likely, if nothing else has changed. Turn every tap and appliance off, read the meter, wait an hour and read it again. If the numbers moved, water is leaving the pipe before it reaches a tap.
Yes. Lead pipes are common in the older parts of Bocking and the town centre. They are traced the same way as copper or plastic, and the report notes the material, because many people replace the whole run rather than patch it.
Yes. Commercial premises are booked the same way, and Charlie can work early or late to avoid trading hours. Larger buildings take longer because there are more pipes to isolate, but the tools are the same.
Charlie tells you, and you stop there. The test at the stop tap shows whether the loss is on the street side or the house side. If it is the water company’s pipe, you report it and they repair it at their cost.
Call Charlie on 07897 020 680, any hour, and he will give you a time.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.