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Charlie asks whether it is a flat or a house, which floor the damp is on, and whether anyone has opened anything up. In a converted house that changes where he starts.
Leak detection in Felixstowe
Charlie has found leaks in both halves of Felixstowe, and water leak detection in the town is usually booked within 24 to 48 hours.
No find, no fee
Jobs in Eastern and Western Felixstowe
Flats and houses covered
Underfloor and external pipes
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
Felixstowe is an Edwardian resort with a working port at one end. The seafront and the roads behind it are large houses, many now flats, with long pipe runs through several floors. Walton and the Trimleys are postwar bungalows and semis on solid floors.
Anglian Water supplies Felixstowe. Salt air is hard on metal outside, so external leak detection in Felixstowe is often a corroded outside tap feed or a supply pipe under a front path. Underfloor heating leak detection in Felixstowe is the other regular call, mostly from the Trimley St Mary estates.
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Charlie asks whether it is a flat or a house, which floor the damp is on, and whether anyone has opened anything up. In a converted house that changes where he starts.
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Meter and pressure checks, then each section of the system held under pressure in turn. In a block of flats this is how Charlie tells your pipework from the flat above.
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The leak is traced with the camera, the microphone or gas and marked on the surface. You get an explanation on the day and a written report for the insurer or freeholder.
For underfloor heating in the Trimley estates and heating pipes under Walton bungalow floors. The loops show through tile and laminate and the leak is where the pattern spreads.
For the mains and external pipes. A corroded supply pipe under a front path makes a steady hiss that the ground microphone follows to the leak through slabs and tarmac.
For a converted house where the pipe runs are long and hidden in old floors and ceilings. The gas escapes at the fault and Charlie finds it from the room above or below.
Charlie has worked in the IP11 district itself, which covers Eastern Felixstowe, Western Felixstowe and the Orwell and Villages ward that takes in the Trimleys, with the most recent visit in November 2025. Back up the A14 there have been jobs in IP12 at Martlesham and Purdis Farm, and repeat visits to east Ipswich in IP3, across Alexandra, Bixley and Gainsborough.
A Felixstowe booking covers Walton, Old Felixstowe, Felixstowe Ferry, Trimley St Mary, Trimley St Martin, Kirton, Falkenham and Levington. Leak detection in Trimley St Mary is treated as part of the town.
In a converted house a leak can damage two flats, and the block policy and your own may both be involved. Trace and access cover pays to find the leak and make good the access. Charlie's report names the flat and the pipe the leak is on, which settles whose insurer handles it.
Yes. Charlie tests your own supply and heating first, then works out whether the water is yours or coming from above. He has done that in blocks across the town and the report says which flat the leak belongs to.
Yes. The pipe is pressurised and traced with the ground microphone, and the leak point is marked on the slabs. You lift two or three slabs at that spot rather than the whole path, and the repair is a single joint.
Most houses take between one and three hours on site, depending on size and how many systems need testing. A large converted house with several flats takes longer. Charlie tells you the likely time on the phone before he comes.
The whole town is covered, from Felixstowe Ferry to the Trimleys and the streets by the docks. The IP11 district is one booking area, with no difference in price or response time between the two ends of the town, port or seafront.
No. The visit is no find, no fee in Felixstowe as anywhere. Coastal houses get condensation and salt damp that look like a leak, and if Charlie proves the pipework holds pressure he says so and there is no charge.
Call 07897 020 680 with the IP11 postcode for the next Felixstowe run.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.