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A drip from a small pipe on the outside wall is a message from a tank, cistern, boiler or cylinder indoors. Its height and material tell you which one.
Rural Cornish homes on a spring, well or borehole have no meter to warn of a leak. Learn to read the pump, isolate each run and trace a long pipe.
Sensor pucks, flow monitors and auto shut-off valves each protect an empty Cornish second home differently. Learn what each catches, what slips past and when to call someone local.
A leak in an empty holiday home can run from October to Easter before anyone notices. How to shut down properly, what to do about frost, and what your insurer expects.
Static caravans and lodges carry their pipework under the floor, where frost and knocks split it unseen. Here is how to spot a leak, test for it and settle who is responsible.
A hot tub should lose almost nothing overnight with the cover on. Here is how to test for a leak and where to look inside the cabinet first.
A pool that needs topping up is not always leaking. The bucket test separates evaporation from a real leak in a day, then the pump test narrows down where.
One corner of the lawn stays wet through a dry spell, or one strip grows greener than the rest. How to tell a leaking supply pipe from a spring, a drain or the weather.
There is no single price for finding a leak. This guide explains what drives the cost, what a survey fee includes, and how buildings insurance often pays it back.
Do you need to be home, move the furniture or lift the carpet? This checklist covers the access a leak detection survey needs, including holiday lets and tenants.
Many Cornish homes have no record of where the water pipes run. This guide explains how buried and hidden pipework is traced, and why that comes first.
Long buried supply pipes are common on Cornish plots. This guide covers the surface signs, the meter test, and how a buried leak is pinpointed so one hole is dug.
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