Damp patches, a ticking water meter, unexplained warm spots. Tracing a leak properly is about elimination, not guesswork.
The first job is proving there's actually a leak. We isolate the incoming main and watch the meter, if it still creeps, water is escaping on your side of the stopcock.
Next we split the system: isolate the heating, then the hot supply, then the cold. Whichever circuit keeps losing pressure narrows the search to a fraction of the pipework.
From there it's thermal imaging for warm-water leaks under screed, acoustic listening on the mains, and a moisture meter across floors and skirting to find the wettest point.
Only when we're confident of the location do we lift anything. On a well-traced leak that's usually one board or one small area of tile rather than a whole floor.
If you can hear running water with everything turned off, or your hot water pipes are warming floors they shouldn't, call us before the damage spreads.
