Water Leak Detection and Repair

Water leaking from your property? Is your water bill more than you’d expect? Perhaps your swimming pool isn’t holding it’s water level. We can help!

Water Leak Detection using Gas Detectors

Here at Eastern Drainage Services, we employ the very latest water leak technology to ensure a swift and cost effective fix to all mains water leaks.

If you’ve noticed an additional cost on your water bill or if your water meter seems to be constantly trickling even when everything is off, this could be a sign of a mains water leak. These can be difficult to find, but also potentially hazardous to your property if not found quickly.

Our gas tracing system can find even the smallest of water leaks.

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Quick Leak Discovery

Safe & Unintrusive

Cost Effective

Water Leak Detection FAQ

Learn more about our water leak detection techniques and why using tracer gas is the best solution to your leak.

Why use hydrogen as the tracer gas?

Hydrogen, at a level of 5% in a balance of nitrogen, is:

Non-flammable
Non-toxic
Non-corrosive
Totally safe
Commonly used as a blanket gas in welding so is cheaply and readily available from all the standard gas suppliers
Has the smallest and lightest molecules so permeates all surfaces including concrete, tarmac, block paving and grass, rising quickly to the surface
Rapidly disperses in air allowing you to hone in quickly to the source
Unlike helium leak detection, which has also been used for some types of leak detection tracing, hydrogen is renewable and cheap; helium is finite and expensive

Water Leak Detection using Tracer Gas

If a water pipe is not under pressure or the noise from the leak cannot easily be heard then Tracer gas can be a very useful technique to locate water leaks in: Supply Pipes, Underwater Heating Systems, Boilers, Central Heating Systems, Mains Distribution Networks.

The Tracer gas is introduced into the pipe with the leak from a cylinder of gas. The tracer gas used to find water leaks is a mixture of hydrogen (5%) and nitrogen(95%) making it completely safe to use in drinking water supplies being both non toxic and non corrosive. The tracer gas contains hydrogen, which is the the lightest and smallest molecule in the atmosphere, which will exit at the leak point and make its way to the surface where it is detected by the highly sensitive gas detector.