
Water Leak Repair
If water is showing up and you can't find where it starts, close the main valve and keep it closed until the source has been traced.
When this becomes an emergency
- A meter still turning after every fixture in the house has been closed.
- A damp patch on a basement wall that darkens after a thaw.
- Staining spreading across a ceiling below an upstairs bath.
- Pressure that's dropped everywhere at once.
What a pro does
Finding it is most of the work. The plumber first splits the question into three: is the loss inside the building, in the service line running to it, or out in irrigation, because all three read the same at the meter. Isolating the house from the service settles that quickly. Outdoor plumbing is where a lot of Colorado leaks begin. A hose bibb that froze and split over the winter behaves perfectly while the valve is closed and then floods a wall cavity the first time it's opened in spring, and a sprinkler system that wasn't fully blown out does something similar. Indoors the plumber works with moisture meters and acoustic listening to trace the run before opening a wall or a ceiling, and pays attention to anything passing through unheated space, since that's where the freeze damage that started this usually happened. The repair matches the existing pipe material, and it gets pressure tested before anything is closed back up. On a line that froze once, the plumber looks at the rest of the exposed run too.
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