LEAK DETECTION CAPE TOWN

• Your water bill has risen even though your water use habits haven’t changed.
• The flow indicator on your meter moves when water isn’t in use.
• You hear the sound of running/hissing water when nothing is turned on.
• Warm spots on the wall or floor
• Wet, spongy or discoloured walls or floors
• Rising damp
• Mould or mildew growth in other rooms besides your bathroom, especially around the base of your shower.
• Peeling/flaking/bubbling of paint on the walls 
• Vegetation/grass growing unevenly around your pool.

Leak detection is a process used by professional plumbers to determine if and where a leak has occurred in your home, office, building, garden or pool. Absolute Plumbing offers you state of the art leak detection in Cape Town; our four main detection methods are:

1. Leak Detection with Thermal Imaging: Our plumbers operate a handheld device designed to find hot water leaks in your walls, ceilings and floors.
2. Hydrogen Gas Seeking Machine: Hydrogen gas is pumped through your pipes, and a snooper sniffs out gas escaping from the origin of your leak. Hydrogen gas molecules are so small they can permeate through soil and asphalt.
3. Acoustic Leak Detection: Tiny microphones are used to detect a leak by picking up the sound of running water or water hissing out of a tiny hole at high pressure.
4. Leak Detection Dye: A small amount of brightly coloured dye is placed into your plumbing system. When this dye circulates through your plumbing, it escapes at leak sites, highlighting your leak’s location. This is an excellent leak detection method to find leaks in your shower.

Absolute Plumbing offers hassle-free underground leak detection services that are guaranteed to find your leak. Here are our 3 tips on how to detect a leak in your home:

1. Check your water meter: Turn off taps, dishwasher and washing machine. Locate your water meter and look for the low flow indicator. This is usually a little wheel or triangle that spins when water is running through the meter. If the low flow indicator is still, you probably don’t have a leak. If the low flow indicator is spinning, you have a leak. Don’t wait; you need Absolute Plumbing to conduct a leak detection immediately.
2. Check for a leak in your toilet: Drop a few drops of food colouring into the cistern of each of your toilets. Make sure that you add enough to stain the water significantly. Wait for 30 minutes, don’t flush the toilet. After 30 minutes, check the colour of the water in the bowl; if it is not crystal clear, you have a leak. Don’t wait! Leaking toilets waste over 30 000 litres of water which can be as much as an added R2000 on your water bill.
3. Take a look at your water bill: Compare your water bills over the last six months to see if your monthly usage has increased rapidly. Your bill should remain consistent, provided you haven’t changed your water use habits. If your water bill has risen slowly over time or skyrocketed suddenly, then it’s likely that you have a leak. Call Absolute Plumbing immediately to conduct a thorough leak detection.

Here are our 4 leak detection tips on how to detect a leak in your pool or jacuzzi. If you notice any of the following about your pool or jacuzzi, you need to call Absolute Plumbing immediately as you may have a costly leak in your swimming pool.

1. Cracks in your pool deck, shell or tiling
2. Losing more than 4mm of water from your pool, jacuzzi or spa in a 24 hour period
3. Rapid algae growth after chemically treating your pool
4. Uneven grass/vegetation growth around your pool

Pool leak detection requires professional assistance and should only be performed by a registered plumber. Regular maintenance and keeping a close eye on your for signs of a leak are the only way to avoid costly leaks in your pool, jacuzzi or spa.

Plumbing leak detection is best left to professional plumbers, but here are a few tips, just for you, on how to detect a leak in a wall:

1. Warm patches on your wall due to a hot water leak
2. Black or brown spots on the wall could mean mould and mildew have begun to grow
3. Bubbling, peeling, stained or discoloured paint
4. Wet spots on the wall or small puddles collecting on the floor
5. The sound of running water, dripping water or hissing water escaping from a small hole under high pressure.
6. A musty smell in the room

A water leak detector is a leak detection system designed to monitor how much water is flowing through a pipeline. This house leak detection device is designed to spot a leak, close the valve and cut off the water supply before there is a massive loss of precious water.