Leak detection in Lewes

South East Water delivers hard water at 270 to 310 ppm CaCO3 across the Lewes district, and that mineral load does two things to pipework over time: it deposits scale that narrows bore and raises pressure differentials, and it masks slow pinhole leaks by depositing a thin crust that conceals the breach from visual inspection. The leaks we find most often in Lewes town and Seaford are buried supply pipes under original stone and brick floors, where a loss that has been running for months emerges only when a downstairs ceiling begins to stain.

Our survey methodology is non-invasive. Thermal imaging maps temperature anomalies across floors and walls; acoustic correlation pinpoints the leak source to within a few centimetres without lifting a single tile; where the pipe geometry or depth makes acoustic work inconclusive, we introduce a safe tracer gas that migrates to the surface and is detected above the leak point.

For Newhaven properties within the coastal flood zone, early detection of any supply or drainage leak is especially important, because saturated ground conditions can accelerate structural movement. Every survey concludes with an insurance-grade written report giving precise location, methodology, confidence level and photographic evidence. There is no callout fee; the trace is billed at our half-hour labour rate for the time of day, and any repair is quoted in writing before work starts – see /pricing.