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A short phone call
Charlie takes the postcode, whether the water is metered, and what made you suspicious. Mildenhall is close enough that a morning call can often mean an afternoon visit.
Leak detection in Mildenhall
Charlie has found leaks in IP28 as recently as April 2026 and books Mildenhall leak detection within 24 to 48 hours.
No find, no fee
3 jobs in IP28
Same-day visits often possible
Rural supply pipes traced
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
Mildenhall sits where the Breckland sand meets the Fen. The town has a small Georgian centre, a ring of postwar estates and much housing let to families from RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath. A leak in a rented house is often reported late.
The villages have the long pipes. Beck Row, West Row, Holywell Row, Barton Mills and Worlington all have properties at the end of a private supply across sandy ground, and Anglian Water's responsibility stops at the stop tap by the road. On sand the water drains away unseen.
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Charlie takes the postcode, whether the water is metered, and what made you suspicious. Mildenhall is close enough that a morning call can often mean an afternoon visit.
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Meter read with everything off, heating pressure held and logged, and the supply pipe isolated at the house, so Charlie can tell an outside leak from an inside one.
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Acoustic listening and tracer gas along a buried supply pipe, thermal imaging on heating under solid floors. The spot is marked, photographed and written up for the insurer or landlord.
For the postwar estate houses with heating pipes in the concrete floor. The camera shows where heat leaves the line of the pipe, or a cylinder feed weeping behind a kitchen unit.
Along the long private supply pipes at Beck Row and Holywell Row. Charlie listens at the stop tap, then along the route, and marks where the noise peaks.
On sandy ground the hiss of a leak fades fast, so gas often decides it. It rises through the sand over the leak and the detector finds it even on a silent pipe.
Charlie has done 3 jobs in IP28, which covers Mildenhall and runs out to Barrow and across the county line to Fordham and Isleham, the latest in April 2026. North of the town there have been 3 jobs in Brandon across the Central, East and West wards, and work in IP24 at Bardwell. In Bury St Edmunds he has found leaks in Abbeygate and Eastgate.
From Mildenhall the same visit reaches Beck Row, West Row, Holywell Row, Barton Mills, Worlington, Lakenheath, Eriswell, Freckenham and Red Lodge. Holywell leak detection is booked as part of Mildenhall.
Many Mildenhall homes are rented, and the landlord's insurer will want proof of where the leak is before paying for a floor to come up. Trace and access cover pays for the detection and the making good. Charlie's report, with the evidence and a marked location, goes to whoever is claiming.
Charlie starts at the meter and with a pressure test on the heating, which shows whether the supply pipe or the heating system is losing water. He then follows that pipe with the thermal camera, the ground microphone or tracer gas and marks the exact point of the leak. You get a clear explanation on the spot and the written report by email the same day.
Yes. Charlie’s written report includes the test readings, the images and the marked leak point. Landlords and letting agents use it to authorise the repair and to claim on the policy that covers the building, and it is emailed the same day.
Yes. The pipe is isolated and pressurised, and Charlie traces it with the ground microphone and then tracer gas, which rises through the sand over the leak. He marks one spot so the repair is a single hole in the field.
It is. If Charlie tests everything and the pipework holds, you do not pay for the survey. On the Fen edge that does happen, because rising groundwater and condensation can look like a leak, and he will say which it is.
Yes. Lakenheath is a few minutes up the road and Brandon is where Charlie has done three jobs already. Both are booked on the same terms as Mildenhall, with no travel charge, and often on the same day as Mildenhall.
Charlie is on 07897 020 680; call with your IP28 postcode for the next slot.
Landline 01440 840 772. Email hello@completeleakdetection.co.uk.