Our Process
How a La Habra job runs, step by step: free survey, written scope, fixed price, sign-off - and the cheaper option named when there is one.
Sequence
Four steps, start to finish
Priced on the ground to be searched, and the free checks explained first.
Read your meter before you ring
Everything off, then watch the low-flow indicator. Still turning means something is moving; completely still through two readings means it very probably is not. Either answer is worth having before anybody quotes you, and it costs nothing.
Tell us how far the meter is from the house
That single measurement sets the price more than anything else does, because it is the ground that has to be searched. A twenty-foot run and a two-hundred-foot run are not the same job and should not carry the same figure.
We isolate before we search
Shutting off sections tells us whether the loss is inside the building, in the service line, in the irrigation, or in the pool. That narrows a whole property to one system before any equipment comes out of the van.
You get the spot, in writing, with the evidence
A location marked on the ground, what was used to find it, and what we would expect the repair to involve. You are free to take that to anybody -- the finding is yours, and it is the thing you paid for.
What it costs
Every range on one page
Ranges for Orange County. Your own fixed price follows the survey.
Priced by the ground to be searched.
Slab Leak Detection - $150 - $400
The repair is quoted separately.
Water Line Leak Detection - $150 - $450
Everything past the meter is yours.
Pool Leak Detection - $100 - $500
Shell, fittings or plumbing -- three different repairs.
Irrigation Leak Detection - $150 - $400
Isolated zone by zone.
Gas Leak Detection - free from the utility, then $150 - $350
Their side is free; your side is not theirs.
Emergency Leak Detection - $150 - $400 plus out-of-hours
The premium is the hour, not the work.
Before anybody quotes
Four things to establish, and three of them are free
The first one decides whether you have a leak at all.
Read the meter with everything off
Every tap and appliance off, irrigation controller off, then watch the low-flow indicator. Still turning means water is moving somewhere it should not be. Completely still across two readings an hour apart means you very probably do not have a leak, and anything spent looking for one is wasted.
Check the reading on the bill against the dials
Somebody in this market paid for a detection visit on the strength of a $1,700 bill, was told there were no leaks, and eventually found a meter reading had been transcribed wrongly. Five minutes and no money would have found that.
Pace out the distance from the meter to the house
That is the measurement that sets the price, because it is the ground that has to be searched. You already have it and it costs nothing to give us.
Then ask for the rate before the visit
Detection is $150 to $400 across the industry, wider on a large lot. Any figure should come with the reason it sits where it does, and on this site it always does.
Availability
Why finding it costs more than fixing it
The part people do not expect, said plainly.
Somebody in this county described a leaking underground pipe that cost about $2,000 -- and said the reason was that they had to find it. That is the shape of this trade. Once a leak is located to a spot, the repair is ordinary plumbing at an ordinary price and plenty of people do it well. Everything difficult happens before that, in the hours spent narrowing a whole property down to one square foot of ground.
Which is why the free checks on these pages are not a marketing gesture. The meter test tells you whether water is moving at all. Shutting the house valve while leaving the meter on tells you whether it is moving inside or outside. The bucket test tells you whether a pool is leaking or evaporating. Each of those removes a whole branch of the search, and each of them costs you nothing and costs us work.
- The rate published before the visit, not after
- The free checks explained on the phone at no charge
- Locating and repair quoted as two separate numbers
- Told when the meter says there is nothing to find
Want a number on it?
Ring (562) 689-9676, say what you are seeing, and leave the call with a written quote and a time for La Habra.
Talk to us
Talk to a leak detection about La Habra
Before you ring
- The meter read before anybody is booked
- Service line isolated before the slab is suspected
Where we work
Every area we cover