Leak Detection
Leak Detection for Homes and Businesses in Spring, TX
Hidden leaks rarely show up as water on the floor. We find them before they become a wall you have to open, across Spring, TX and the greater Houston area.
Chapter 01
The signs of a hidden leak
A leak you can see is the easy one. Most start where you can't see them at all, behind drywall or under a slab, and the tell isn't a puddle, it's something around you starting to change. An unexplained increase in your water bill is usually the first clue, since the meter keeps a more honest record than your eyes do. After that, watch for damp spots on a wall or ceiling, a musty smell that won't clear no matter how much you air the room out, or water pooling near a fixture or a run of pipe with no obvious source.
Any one of those on its own is worth a call to our plumbers in Spring, TX. A leak behind a wall doesn't pause while you decide whether it's serious. It keeps running, the stain keeps spreading, and the framing behind it keeps sitting in water it was never built to handle. Catching it at the water-bill stage instead of the ceiling-stain stage is the difference between a repair and a repair plus drywall.
Plumb Pro Services branded pickup at a residential driveway in Spring, TX
Gas or water: shut the main, ventilate, call
If you suspect a gas leak or a water leak that's outpacing what you can contain, shut off the main valve immediately and open the windows for ventilation. Then call us right away at (832) 220-5104. Don't wait to see if it settles down on its own, and don't try to chase the source yourself before the water's off. Shutting the main first means whatever's wrong stops getting worse while we're on the way.
Once we're on site, we don't open walls on a guess. Hydrostatic testing pressurizes a section of pipe with water and watches for a pressure drop, which tells us whether that section is holding or losing water without cutting into anything. Isolation testing shuts off sections of the plumbing one at a time so we can narrow the leak down to a specific line before any drywall comes out. Both are diagnostic steps, not repairs, and they're how we make sure the cut we make is the right one.
Chapter 03
The 24-hour Monday-to-Saturday door
Leaks don't check the clock before they start. We're open 24 hours Monday through Saturday, closed Sundays, and 24/7 emergency service is available for anything that genuinely can't wait until the door opens again. A 2 a.m. call gets answered the same way a 2 p.m. one does.
Every leak call starts with a free estimate and upfront pricing, so you know the cost before we start rather than finding out after. Plumb Pro Services is licensed and insured under Texas Master Plumbing License No. 36989, held by K. Hall, and that license is on every job we run in Spring, TX and the surrounding Houston-area counties.
Plumb Pro Services - licensed and insured, Texas Master Plumbing License No. 36989. Call (832) 220-5104 any time, day or night.