Accurate underground pipe location and water leak detection for plumbers and builders
Sydney Leak Detection is a specialist company based in Sydney Northern Beaches providing a wide range of expert water services, including trade-to-trade support. Our qualified and experienced leak detectors work closely with licensed plumbers like you. With a practical and down to earth approach, our technicians use a wide range of specialist leak detection equipment and expertise to make your job easier. Less digging, more fixing.
Whether you have exhausted all possible avenues to locate an elusive pipe leak, need to find the leak fast, or simply want a lot less digging, Sydney Leak Detection has your back. We have assisted hundreds of plumbers across all Sydney suburbs find leaks. Our focus is locating, tracing, and marking up the underground pipework. We then focus on isolating and testing the water service as needed to detect the actual water leak. We then hand it back to you to get on with the plumbing repairs. We also do not mind if you want to tag along during testing. It’s your job.
Specialist leak detectors for busy Sydney plumbers
Experienced technicians locating underground plumbing pipes
Sydney Leak Detection have a reputation for thinking outside the box and and locating concealed pipes, underground, below concrete slab, within walls, cavities, ceilings, ducts. Expert water pipe locators for residential, commercial, strata and other property types. We work alongside other licensed plumbers with specialist underground pipe locating equipment, and other leak detection methods such as Hydrogen tracer gas, acoustic systems, thermal imaging and inspection cameras.
With a proven track record, the Sydney team of water leak detectors collaborates with other plumbers and builders to find solutions for their customers. We locate, trace and mark up underground copper pipes, as well as suspect pipe leaks below concrete slabs. Where possible the technician will advise the pipework depth to save you as much digging as possible.
Get photos on your mobile almost in real time for those jobs you or your trades cannot attend in person. Sometimes a joint inspection is the preferred approach but other times detecting a leak cannot wait. Our attendance is typically arranged directly by you with your customer. We are flexible and work around your business needs as well as your customer’s availability. We ensure the paperwork is also transparent by issuing clear and timely invoices.
Underground pipe location
The Sewerin and the RD8000 pipe locators are high radio frequency devices used by our water leak detectors in combination with other testing methods. The use of this advanced leak detection technology is essential to locate and trace the water pipes internally and externally prior to testing for water leaks.
Acoustic pipe leak detector
The acoustic leak detection system uses electronic equipment to isolate the lowest noise emitted consistently by water escaping the pipework. Detecting underground water leaks is possible for plumbing leakage at a rate greater than 6 litres per minute. The acoustic method works by reducing interfering noise such as vehicular traffic, chatter or pedestrian footsteps during testing and focuses on isolating the sound of water escaping the hidden pipes.
Hydrogen plumbing leak detection
Hydrogen tracer gas is a versatile and cutting edge water leak detection system used by leak location specialists. This advanced technology uses a safe mixture of Hydrogen and Nitrogen that is released into the pipework to detect a water leak.
Due to its light composition containing the smallest and lightest atoms, H5 can escape through the most minute pipe leak into the atmosphere. The dispersing H5 gas is then detected by the highly sensitive probes. The specialist Sewerin equipment is a precise and efficient leak detection solution.
Thermal imaging in water leak detection
Thermal imaging is used to scan building surfaces to detect heat, thermal variations or hotspots from leaking water pipes. The readings are indicative of the moisture content in building materials, a hotspot is a strong indicator of a pipe leak. This testing method provides the advantage of gaining valuable insight without cutting or causing damage when searching for a hidden plumbing water leak.
Water leak location with thermal imaging technology offers a reliable avenue to scan large surfaces fast in search of moisture. Entire ceilings, walls and floors can be effectively surveyed in search of moisture transfer or a water leak in tandem with other specialist leak detection equipment.
Leak detection specialist equipment saves plumbers time and effort
The Sydney Leak Detection team are approachable, trustworthy, and the findings have been spot on without exception.
Get the job done faster and hassle free.
Matt, Barton Plumbing
