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For a let or a second home Charlie arranges keys, the stopcock and the boiler location in advance. The property needs to be empty of guests so meter and pressure tests are reliable.
Leak detection in Hemsby
Charlie books Hemsby alongside Great Yarmouth and Gorleston jobs and arrives with every detector he owns.
No fee without a find
Coast visits inside 48 hours
Holiday lets and homes alike
Written evidence for the insurer
Tell us what you have noticed and where. We ring you back to talk it through. No find, no fee.
No find, no fee
24/7 enquiries
Non-invasive methods
Reports for insurance claims
Hemsby is mostly bungalows, holiday chalets and small post war houses on sandy ground near the beach, with caravan and chalet parks between the village and the dunes. Sand drains fast, so a leaking supply pipe here rarely makes a puddle. The water disappears downwards and the only clue is a meter that never stops.
A lot of Hemsby property is let for part of the year. A leak in an empty chalet can run for weeks between bookings, and a water bill for a property nobody was staying in is usually the first warning.
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For a let or a second home Charlie arranges keys, the stopcock and the boiler location in advance. The property needs to be empty of guests so meter and pressure tests are reliable.
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With everything off, the meter shows whether the supply pipe is leaking. The heating is pressure tested separately. In a chalet without central heating the search is usually the supply pipe or the cylinder feeds.
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Acoustic listening along the supply, thermal imaging indoors and tracer gas where needed bring it down to inches. Charlie marks the spot, photographs it and sends the report.
Indoors the camera picks out hot pipes under a floor and cold wet areas in walls. In a chalet with thin floors the heat signature is strong and the leak often shows on the first pass.
Sand carries the hiss of a pressurised leak well. Our engineer works along the supply pipe from the boundary with a ground microphone until the sound is strongest, then marks that point.
Where a heating or hot water pipe is set in a solid floor, a safe hydrogen mix is put through the drained pipe. It surfaces at the leak and a detector picks it up through tiles or vinyl.
A holiday chalet had a water bill for a month when nobody had stayed. We met the keyholder, shut the stop tap and watched the meter still turning, then followed the supply pipe across the sandy garden with the ground microphone. The split was under the path by the gate, and the repair was one small dig. A bungalow nearer the beach had a boiler losing pressure, with no damp to see because the sand took it all. Tracer gas through the heating loop came up through the lounge floor at one spot. And on one of the parks a shared supply to several chalets was isolated branch by branch until the meter settled, which named the one at fault.
Great Yarmouth is the nearest town and most Hemsby jobs are paired with it. Brundall and Thorpe St Andrew are on the Norwich road, and North Walsham is reachable along the coast. Caister, Winterton and Martham sit between.
Trace and access cover on a home or holiday let policy normally pays for finding the leak and for opening up to repair it. Our report gives the pipe, the location, the test results, the photographs and thermal images, laid out so the claim can be assessed from the document alone.
Yes. Our engineer needs a key or key safe code, the stopcock location and the heating left on if there is any. He sends the report and photographs afterwards so you can see what was found without travelling over.
The owner does, from the boundary stop tap to the building. The water company looks after the main and the pipe up to that tap. Our engineer marks the leak on your section so the repair is a single small dig.
Because sand lets the water drain straight down. In Hemsby the surface can be bone dry over a pipe that is losing water all day. The meter tells the truth and the ground microphone finds the point.
Usually inside 48 hours. Our engineer plans Hemsby alongside Great Yarmouth, Gorleston or Acle work, and flexibility on the day makes it easier to bring the visit forward.
No. If the cause is an overflow, a cistern or a fitting you can see once it is pointed out, our engineer tells you and no find, no fee applies. You only pay for a hidden leak he has located.
Call us on 07897 020 680 and tell us whether the property is lived in or let.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.