Leak Detection in Liversedge

Water takes the easiest route down. It runs along the top of a ceiling, follows a joist or a pipe, and comes through wherever the plaster gives first. In a Liversedge terrace where the bathroom was moved upstairs at some point, that can put the stain in the front room and the leak at the back of the house.

So we do not begin by cutting into the stain. We establish which system the water belongs to, then which room, then which length of pipe, and only then open up where the evidence points.

If your radiators are fed by thin 8mm or 10mm pipe, you have microbore. It is easy to damage, and once a system has some sludge in it, it is also where corrosion tends to break through first. A pinhole can be tiny, a few drops an hour, but it never stops.

Repairing a single pinhole is quick. The more useful question is whether the rest of that run is in the same condition, and we will tell you honestly if we think it is.

Kitchen and bathroom extensions are common round here, and they usually mean new pipework joined onto old. The join is where different materials, different fitters and different decades meet, and it is one of the first places we check.

The same goes for radiators that were moved during building work. The capped tails from the old position are sometimes left under the floor, and an old cap can start to weep long after everyone has forgotten it is there.