Leak detection in Las Vegas and Clark County
Finding it is a separate skill from fixing it. Acoustic, pressure and thermal, before anyone cuts anything open.
Figures above are published third party data, not company claims. Sources: Las Vegas Valley Water District, water district hardness figure, water district supply figure, Clark County.
Finding a hidden leak is a separate skill from fixing one. Acoustic, pressure and thermal methods locate it before anyone opens a wall or a slab, which is the difference between one repair and a week of exploratory demolition.
A visible drip is easy. These are the ones that run for months inside a wall, under a slab or out in the yard.
Turn off every water fixture and appliance in the house, including the ice maker and any irrigation. Then look at your water meter and note the reading, or watch the leak indicator if yours has one. Come back in twenty minutes. If the reading has moved with nothing running, you have a leak somewhere on your side of the meter. That single test is the most useful thing you can do before calling anyone.
The method depends on where the leak is and what it is leaking into. Most jobs use two of these together.
| Method | What it is good at |
|---|---|
| Meter isolation | Establishes that there is a leak and narrows it to the house side, the irrigation side or the service line. Free, and it happens first. |
| Acoustic listening | Hearing pressurised water escaping through slab, soil or wall. The primary tool on slab leaks. |
| Pressure testing by zone | Isolating sections of the system to prove which branch is losing pressure. Turns a whole house question into one line. |
| Thermal imaging | Finding temperature differences from escaping hot water, or damp spreading through a wall. Strong on hot water slab leaks. |
| Tracer gas | For leaks that are hard to hear, particularly deep or in noisy environments. |
| Camera, for drains | Drain leaks are a different problem from supply leaks, and a camera is the tool for those. |
The bill, the sound, the warm floor, the damp wall. And whether you ran the meter test, because that saves the first part of the visit.
On the callMeter checked, then the system isolated by zone to work out which part of it is losing water. Irrigation gets ruled out early, because it is a common culprit and a cheaper fix.
On siteAcoustic, thermal or pressure work to get from a zone to a spot. The aim is a mark on the floor or wall, not an area.
Same visitYou get the location, what it will take to reach it, and the repair options. Locating and repairing are different scopes and you should see them separately.
Before any repairWhere the leak turns out to be on the utility side of the meter, we tell you, and that is the utility responsibility rather than a bill from us.
No rate or range for this work is published anywhere on this site, because none has been confirmed for publication for this business. What follows is the honest version: what actually moves the number on a job like this, so you can read any quote and judge it.
Describe what is happening and you will hear what it usually means, what the repair involves and what somebody needs to see before quoting it. That happens whether or not you book the work.
Because exploratory demolition is expensive and often wrong. Locating first means one opening in one place. It is the cheaper path in nearly every case, and it is much cheaper when the leak turns out to be somewhere nobody would have guessed.
Location itself is non invasive: listening, thermal and pressure work do not break anything. Reaching the leak to repair it will require access, but a located leak means a small, deliberate opening rather than a search.
It happens occasionally, usually with a very small intermittent leak. What you should expect is a straight account of what was ruled out and what the next step would be, not a repair quoted on a guess.
A new site with a wall of glowing testimonials should make you suspicious, and this one does not have them because no review corpus has been verified for this brand. Rather than fill the space with invented quotes, these are three things about your water and your county that you can check against the agency that published them.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District publishes valley tap water at 291 parts per million, 17 grains per gallon, and categorises it as very hard. It is the reason fixtures and water heaters here do not last as long as the box promised.
Read the water district pageThe Southern Nevada Water Authority states that removing calcium and magnesium softens water but is not a necessity to protect your health. Any company telling you otherwise is contradicting the agency that tests your supply.
Read the water authority pagePlumbing and Heating, issued by the Nevada State Contractors Board under chapter 624. You can check any contractor licence on their register in about a minute, and you should, before work starts.
Check a licence on the registerAn illustrative image, not a photograph of our work.
An illustrative view of the equipment and access this job involves. It is not a photograph of our work.
These are illustrations and diagrams, not photographs of our work. No job photography, before and after pair, van, uniform or team photograph appears anywhere on this site, because we do not have verified photographs of this company work yet and generating them would fabricate evidence about a real business. Real job photography is on the list to add.
We cover leak detection in every community below. Each area page names the authority that issues a permit for that address, which matters whenever this work is permitted.
One call. You get the diagnosis before the number, and the cost of the visit before anyone is sent out.
We are a service area business. We come to you, so there is no counter to visit and no street address on this page. The number above is the fastest way in.
None of it is required. All of it makes the call shorter.
Calling about Leak detection? Say that first and we can skip straight to the questions that matter for it. Something else? Find it on the services hub.
Water pouring right now? Do not read the rest of this. Call (725) 255-9011 and shut off the supply while it rings.
Run the meter test. Turn off every fixture, appliance, ice maker and irrigation zone, note the meter reading, and check again twenty minutes later. Movement with nothing running means water is escaping on your side of the meter. A bill that jumped without a change in habits is the other common signal.
Not usually in the sense of needing someone at 2am, but it is not something to sit on. Water under a slab undermines soil and finds its way into flooring and walls, and the repair cost tends to grow with the delay.
Very often, and it is one of the first things we isolate, because irrigation leaks are usually cheaper to reach and fix than anything inside the house. A greener strip of landscaping is the classic tell.
The locating work does not. Listening equipment and thermal cameras work through the surface. Any opening comes at the repair stage and is targeted to the located spot.
That depends entirely on your policy and the cause, and we cannot tell you what yours covers. What helps a claim is documentation, so we provide the located findings, dated photographs and a written scope as standard.
Describe what is happening and we will tell you what it usually takes to fix, before anyone comes out.
