One of the more frequent, annoying, and destructive plumbing issues a house can experience is leaks. Even a little pinhole leak can ruin drywall, cause other serious problems, wastewater, and increase your expenses.
But when it comes to repairs, leaks provide a unique challenge: locating the leak in the first place! You won’t likely be aware of leaks unless they appear in one of the few visible pipes in your home. This is just one of the factors you need to trust qualified plumbers with the repair work. Plumbers provide a crucial service called leak detection. Licensed plumbers can locate leaks precisely using the methods listed below so that they can swiftly and exactly fix them.
How Does A Plumber Detect Water Leaks In Your Home?
Audio Listening Techniques
A ground microphone is one of the fundamental instruments plumbers use to locate leaks. They can hear water trickling and escaping using sound technology, even through a layer of concrete.
Video Surveillance Equipment
Plumbers use video pipe inspection technology to do the most accurate leak detection. Small cameras are attached to fiber optic cables that are both flexible and lengthy. Plumbers can insert these into faucets and other plumbing outlets to find leaks.
The camera will send different images to a monitor so the plumber can observe the pipe’s interior conditions. This allows them to find leaks’ sources, which may be hidden from view and gives them any extra information they need to fix the leak.
Heat Scanners
When working in environments too loud or too deep for acoustic listening methods to be effective, plumbers will use scanners that pick up temperature changes. Temperature fluctuations, which the scanners can detect, are caused when water escapes.
Cameras For Thermal Images
Using thermal imaging cameras, sometimes known as heat scanners, can help locate leaks in hot water pipes concealed behind walls, under floorboards, or concrete. Thermography cameras can help discover issue locations that can’t be seen with the human eye, identifying hidden water leaks that would otherwise be invisible. Infrared imaging and measuring cameras are what we mean when discussing thermography. These cameras allow us to see and quantify the amount of thermal energy an item emits.
The use of thermal imaging allows for the detection of moisture behind walls, on ceilings, on flat roofs, and even under floors. Using thermal imaging cameras is an efficient method for quickly examining broad regions. Furthermore, using these cameras produces little disruption and no harm to your property. Not only can infrared inspection cameras find concealed water leaks and the source of the leak, but they can also find moisture that can’t be physically reached by moisture meters. This allows for more accurate readings from the meters.
Training
Another helpful resource that plumbers have for finding leaks is their specialized expertise. Licensed plumbers are familiar enough with plumbing systems to quickly focus their search without the aid of any specialized technologies. Because of this, you should only hire plumbers with the necessary training.
Contact a leak detection expert to minimize damage to your home or company. Bueno Plumbing is the go-to company for leak detection. We prioritize client safety and satisfaction and go above and above to help.