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A phone call to narrow it down
Charlie wants to know what you have seen, whether the boiler drops pressure and if the meter moves overnight. The answers point to the supply pipe, the heating or the plumbing.
Leak detection in Watton
A Watton visit is usually booked within 24 to 48 hours, with the thermal camera and tracer gas kit in the van.
No fee if nothing is found
Slots inside 48 hours
Written report for claims
Charlie does every visit himself
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
Watton is a small market town with a long high street of older brick houses, post war bungalows and semis, and newer estates on the former airfield side. The old houses carry generations of plumbing changes. The newer ones have radiator feeds buried in concrete, which is where most Watton leak detection work ends up.
Anglian Water looks after the mains in the road. The pipe from the stopcock to the house is the owner's, and around Watton it often runs a long way under a drive or paddock. A quiet leak on it shows as a high bill and a meter that will not stand still.
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Charlie wants to know what you have seen, whether the boiler drops pressure and if the meter moves overnight. The answers point to the supply pipe, the heating or the plumbing.
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He checks the meter with the house turned off, then pressure tests the heating if that is the suspect. Separating the two systems first saves hours in the wrong place.
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The thermal camera, ground microphone or gas detector takes over. Charlie marks the spot, takes photographs and walks you through the repair options.
With the heating running, the thermal camera picks out the warm lines of pipes under a floor and the cold patch where water is soaking in. It maps where to listen next.
A buried supply pipe under pressure hisses at the break, and the sound travels through soil and concrete. Our engineer listens along the run and homes in on the loudest reading.
For a heating leak with no heat signature, the circuit is drained and charged with a safe hydrogen mix. The gas escapes at the fault, works up through the floor and is picked up by a probe.
A post war bungalow in the town had a hall floor that was warm to the touch and a boiler that dropped pressure every few days. Tracer gas through the heating circuit came up at one spot in the concrete, which was opened for the repair and nowhere else. On one of the newer estates on the airfield side a house with a block paved drive had a meter that turned with everything off. The ground microphone found the supply pipe leaking a metre from the front wall. And a farmhouse out in the Wayland villages had a long private pipe across a paddock, where the leak was found near an old gateway and the dig was one hole.
Watton is one of the Breckland stops on our leak detection Norfolk route. Dereham is a short run north, Hingham and Attleborough are a few minutes east, and Thetford and Swaffham sit at either end of the same road.
Trace and access is the part of a buildings policy that covers finding a leak and getting to it. Our report records where the leak is, how it was proved and what was opened up, with the thermal images attached. Insurers accept it without a second visit.
No. Watton at Stone is a village near Hertford in Hertfordshire. This page is about Watton in Norfolk, but our engineer covers both, because Hertfordshire is inside our SG postcode area. Say which Watton you are in when you call.
Our engineer will give you a day and a rough arrival time when you book. A Thetford or Attleborough job the same day often lets him come on afterwards. Otherwise expect 24 to 48 hours.
Not to find it. Tracer gas and the thermal camera work through concrete, tiles and laminate. Our engineer marks a spot the size of a dinner plate, so the floor is opened at one patch, not across the room.
It is a common Watton job. The long private run is where the leak usually is. Our engineer traces the line of the pipe first, then listens along it until the sound peaks, and marks that point for one small excavation.
Our engineer can often repair the leak once found, or you can hand the marked spot and the report to your own plumber. If there is no leak to find you pay nothing for the visit.
Call us on 07897 020 680, day or night.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.