A leak you can see is a plumbing job. A leak you cannot see is a detection job, and the difference matters because the wrong approach to a hidden leak is expensive: floors lifted on a guess, tiles smashed off a wall to find dry pipework behind it, a kitchen taken apart to reach a joint that was in the bathroom all along. The point of leak detection is to know where the water is coming from before anyone picks up a crowbar.
Dependable Heating traces leaks in houses, flats and small commercial premises across London. The symptoms that bring people to this page are familiar: a boiler that needs topping up every few days, a damp patch that spreads, a water bill that has doubled, a warm spot on a floor, a smell of damp in one room, a ceiling stain in the flat below. Each of those is a clue, and the survey works from the clues to the source.
Once found, the leak is repaired by the same engineers, whether it is a heating pipe, a mains supply, a waste or a shower tray. Where the leak is on a heating circuit it is often the reason behind a boiler pressure fault, and where it is a blocked or broken waste it becomes a drain repair. The service covers the areas served across London.
