Slab Leak Detection in Whittier

No. Locating is done without opening anything; the opening comes after, for the repair, and it is small precisely because the locating was done first. Anybody breaking concrete to look rather than to fix has the order wrong.

Probably not. Water under a slab runs along whatever path it finds and surfaces where it can, which is frequently a room away from the pipe. That gap is the entire reason this service exists.

No, and this is worth knowing before you spend anything. A bill is a calculation from a reading, and readings can be wrong. Somebody in this area paid for a detection visit on the strength of a $1,700 bill, was told there were no leaks, and eventually established that a meter reading had been transcribed incorrectly -- a 2 recorded as a 5. Check the reading printed on your bill against the dials on your meter before you book anybody. If they do not match, your problem is administrative and nobody needs to dig.

Because finding it is the hard part. Once a leak is located to a spot, the repair is ordinary plumbing -- a cut, a fitting, a test -- at an ordinary price. Narrowing an entire property down to that spot is what takes the skill and the equipment, and on a buried line it can take hours. Somebody in this county summarised it exactly: an underground pipe repair cost them about $2,000, and the reason was that it had to be found first. Buying the locating properly is what keeps the repair small.

Not to locate a leak, anywhere in this service area. You do to open a slab or replace a section of service line, and the desk is not the same across the six places on this site. La Habra and Fullerton are Orange County cities and permit through their own departments. Whittier, La Mirada and La Habra Heights are Los Angeles County cities and do the same. Hacienda Heights is the one that catches people out: it is unincorporated, so it goes through Los Angeles County Public Works rather than through any city, on a different timetable.