Jacksonville, FL

    Leak Detection & Repair in Jacksonville, FL

    We locate leaks under slabs, behind walls and in supply and irrigation lines using acoustic listening and pressure testing, so the repair opens up as little of your home as possible. You get the exact location, the cause and a repair price before we cut anything.

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    Acoustic leak detection equipment locating a hidden slab leak beneath a Jacksonville home's floor

    Signs of a hidden leak

    A hidden leak announces itself indirectly: a water bill that jumped for no reason, a warm patch on the floor, the sound of water running with every fixture off, or a musty smell in one room. Finding it precisely is most of the job.

    • A water bill noticeably higher with no change in how you use water
    • A warm or damp spot on a tile or slab floor
    • Running water audible when everything is turned off
    • Cracked, buckling or discolored flooring in one area
    • Musty smell, or mildew returning in the same corner
    • Weak pressure at one fixture or throughout the house
    • Grass or landscaping unusually green in one strip of the yard

    What's included

    • Slab leak location and repair
    • Wall, ceiling and under-cabinet leak location
    • Whole-house pressure testing and isolation
    • Irrigation and outdoor supply line leaks
    • Shutoff valve, hose bib and supply line repair
    • Pinhole leak repair and repipe recommendations where lines are failing repeatedly

    How we handle it

    1. Confirm there is a leak

      A meter test with the house isolated proves whether water is moving when nothing is on, and roughly how much. That rules out the misreads before we start opening walls.

    2. Narrow it by section

      We isolate and pressure-test sections to separate a supply-side leak from a drain, an irrigation line or a pool.

    3. Pinpoint it

      Acoustic listening and pressure equipment put the leak in a spot, not a room. That is the difference between one small opening and a torn-up floor.

    4. Repair and explain the cause

      We fix it, then tell you why it happened — pipe material, water pressure, a bad joint or age — so you know whether it is one leak or the first of several.

    What it costs

    Every plumbing price depends on the problem — what's actually failing, where it sits in the house, and how much has to be opened up to reach it. We diagnose first, explain what we found, and give you a firm price before any work starts. You approve the number before we pick up a tool, and there is no charge for changing your mind.

    Why it happens here

    Most Jacksonville homes built from the 1960s on sit on a concrete slab with the water lines running underneath, which is why slab leaks are so common here and why locating them accurately matters so much. Older copper in our humid, high-mineral conditions develops pinhole leaks, and 1980s and 1990s polybutylene still turns up in Southside and Orange Park homes — when we find that, we say so, because it tends to fail again elsewhere.

    Common questions

    No. Locating is non-destructive — acoustic and pressure equipment finds the spot first. Only the repair itself opens the slab, and only at that one point.

    A pinhole you cannot hear can run thousands of gallons a month. That is usually what the surprise water bill is telling you.

    Policies commonly cover resulting water damage but not the failed pipe itself. We document what we found and where, which is what an adjuster asks for.

    Often, yes — a stuck valve or a cracked lateral looks exactly like a house leak on the meter. We test for it before touching anything indoors.

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