Leak detection in Folkestone and Hythe.

Chalk-aquifer water at 280 to 330 ppm CaCO3, delivered across the district by South East Water and Southern Water, leaves calcium deposits at every threaded joint, compression fitting and valve seat it passes through. In Folkestone's older Victorian terraces – particularly those on the hillside streets between the town centre and the Harbour Arm – original lead or early copper supply runs sit beneath finished floors and behind plasterwork that has not been opened in decades. On the Marsh-edge properties outside Hythe and towards New Romney, supply pipework often runs longer uninterrupted distances across open ground before entering the building, making acoustic correlation the method of first choice.

We approach every leak-detection project with three instruments working in sequence. Thermal imaging maps temperature differentials through floors and walls, flagging wet zones without any opening-up. Acoustic correlation pinpoints the leak position to within centimetres on buried mains. Where pipework runs beneath dense screed or concrete and thermal and acoustic readings need confirmation, tracer gas is introduced – it migrates to the leak point and is detected at surface with a probe, even under CT21 coastal-clay ground conditions. The result is a single, precisely located mark on the floor or ground and an insurance-grade written report covering methodology, findings and photographic evidence. There is no callout fee; fixed pricing is agreed after survey. See /pricing.