Water travels and can cause damage quickly to the interior of your home. And if left unattended for a long period of time, water can cause structural damage to the foundation of your pool, or, worse yet, cause a sinkhole in your yard. While there are ways to detect a leak on your own, it’s recommended to call a professional water leak detection company to accurately detect the leak and safely remove any dangerous mold and repair the damage.

Often we don’t know we have a leak until it starts affecting the things around us. There’s either a puddle next to your pool even though you haven’t swum in days, there’s a strange stain on your ceiling that continues to come and go, or maybe you can hear water running even though you haven’t left anything on. Either way, if you think you have a leak, be sure to contact the team at Leak Science right away.
 

Why Hire a Professional Water Leak Detection Company?

There are two main benefits of hiring a water leak detection company: they have the equipment and the trained ear. Oftentimes, as homeowners without any experience in the leak detection business, if you hear water running in your bathroom but can’t see where it’s actually coming from, you risk making damaging mistakes to your home by attempting to locate and then fix yourself. This can potentially cost more money than is necessary.

Professional leak detectors have equipment that mutes all of the ambient noise – traffic, wind, air conditioning, etc. – that interferes with you from hearing the leak, using a digital spectrum analyzer. Their ground sensors can locate leaks 6 feet underground through hard surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and tile. Additionally, a probe sensor picks up leaks through soft surfaces such as grass or carpet that harbor shock-resistant housings to reduce unwanted noise.

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What should you do now that you’ve had a leak? 

We can assist you in finding the leak and having it fixed as soon as possible, regardless of whether you are experiencing boiler pressure loss, can smell mold, have a wet area, or have a high water bill.

The effects of leaks should never be taken lightly. A 0.5mm leak may let 20 liters of water out per hour, seriously damaging your home and causing a spike in your water bill.

Early leak detection is just the beginning. Finding the source might cost a lot of money and cause a lot of trouble. In order to discover the leak if it isn’t evident, a plumber could do further harm.

So don’t hesitate to contact a professional water leak detection company like Leak Science. Contact us by phone at 480-794-0959 or fill out our online contact form. At the time that’s most convenient for you, we’ll send a qualified leak detection technician to your house. They’ll find the issue in a couple of minutes using the most advanced leak-detecting technologies.

To learn more about what to anticipate when we arrive, review our past leak detection & repair projects.
 

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How to Listen for a Leak

You can absolutely purchase the equipment yourself, but it’s important to train your ear.
 

• Water flowing through the soil will produce a gurgling noise, similar to the water current in a stream.
   
• Water forced through a crack in a pipe will make a hissing sound or a whooshing sound.
   
• Water forced through a crack and hitting the soil into rocks or gravel will make a knocking sound, and if loose soil is surrounding the pipe, it may be difficult to hear the leak at all.