Water Leak? We Find It and Fix It Today.

Worth ruling out before anything else, because it is free to check and it is a genuinely common cause of a bill that jumped for no obvious reason. Put a few drops of food colouring in the tank and wait twenty minutes without flushing. Colour in the bowl means the flapper is leaking, and a silent one can waste hundreds of gallons a day.

Water at the base of the spout or seeping from the handle usually means worn cartridges or O-rings rather than anything structural. It is a small repair, but Tucson water is hard and the same mineral content that wears the seat will wear the replacement faster if the fixture is old enough to be worth replacing outright.

The signs are warm spots on the floor, the sound of running water with everything off, unexplained damp in the carpet, or a bill that climbed steadily rather than jumping. We locate these acoustically and with thermal imaging before anyone breaks concrete, because the difference between a spot repair and a reroute is a lot of money.

Easy to miss in Tucson because the water disappears into the ground rather than showing up indoors. Suspect it when the meter moves with the house shut off but the landscape has a patch that is greener or a spot that never dries. We isolate the irrigation side from the house side to tell them apart before digging anything.

Water pooling near the heater may be a fitting, the temperature and pressure relief valve doing exactly what it should, or the tank itself. The first two are repairs. A tank that is weeping from the body is failing and will not be fixed, and it is better to know that before it opens up while you are out.

How do I know if I have a hidden water leak?

Shut off every fixture and appliance in the house, then look at the water meter. If the low-flow indicator is still turning, water is going somewhere. Other signs are a bill that climbed without a change in habits, warm spots on a slab floor, damp or musty smells, or the sound of running water with everything off.

Can you find the leak without tearing up my floor?

That is the point of leak detection. We use acoustic listening equipment, thermal imaging and line tracing to narrow a leak down to a small area before anything is opened. On a slab that is the difference between one targeted repair and cutting a trench across a room, and it is why we detect first and quote the repair second.

What is a slab leak and how serious is it?

It is a leak in a water line running under the concrete foundation. It matters because the water has nowhere to go but into the slab and the soil beneath it, and left long enough that undermines the foundation and ruins flooring. It is not an emergency in the sense of needing someone at 2am, but it is not something to leave for a season either.

How much does leak detection cost in Tucson?

Detection is priced separately from the repair, because until we know where the leak is nobody can honestly quote fixing it. You get the detection price before we start and the repair price once we have located it, and you decide at that point. The diagnostic and estimate fee is waived when you move forward with the repair.

My meter is running but I cannot find any water. What now?

That usually means the leak is underground, in an irrigation line, or under the slab, which is exactly the case detection equipment is for. Shut off the valve to the irrigation system and check the meter again: if it stops, the leak is on the landscape side, which is a much smaller job than a leak inside the house.