Santa Maria can be a fun and challenging place to call home, but like any place people live, a family can run into their share of challenges. If you are just moving into the area and are planning to purchase a home or even if you are a long term resident be sure to spend a little time and test the plumbing of your home. Leaking plumbing can do an immense amount of damage to both the home’s structural foundation as well as it’s finishing materials leaving the homeowner with thousands of dollars in repair bills.
For most homeowners finding a leak is usually luck, in this case, bad luck. However, most experienced plumbing contractors such as Jerry’s Plumbing and Heating provide a professional Leak Locating Santa Maria service that can catch these problems before they become major disasters. Leak detection generally works on the principal of sound detection. Basically, the plumber will have you turn off everything in the home that you possibly can, the less noise to interfere with the scanner the better the final results. They will then use a sonic scanner to test all the walls and plumbing for any unusual noises.
Leak Locating Santa Maria works by detecting the sound of a small stream of spraying water, the hiss of high pressured gas being released through a pinhole or the sound of water striking the wall beside the pipe or other unusual noises. The test is extremely accurate and will often find a tiny leak long before it becomes a major repair job.
Of course, there are leaks that leak locating Santa Maria might easily miss. Water lines surrounded by concrete or thick rock, dirt or other dense materials could restrict the sensor. Plus, this test doesn’t work very well on sewage systems because they don’t operate under internal pressure like the fresh water inlet systems. For detecting leaks and damage in drainage and sewage systems your contractor can use a video snake tool. This device is a small camera mounted on a long cable that works very much like the clog remover the plumbers use on drain lines. The flexible line allows the camera to move around curves, fittings and other obstacles so the plumber can easily see the problem.
