A hidden leak in a Cardonald (G52) flat or house can be pinpointed by Hamaad Janjua, ADI Leak Detection's Giffnock-based engineer, and marked before floors, walls or ground are disturbed. For plumbing, central heating and water mains leaks, the repair can follow from the same engineer, with a guarantee.
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From his Giffnock base, Hamaad's shortest route to Cardonald is 5.7 miles, via Barrhead Road, the B762. In National Records of Scotland's 2017 figures for the statistical areas named after Cardonald, flats and terraced houses made up more than eight in ten homes, and Scottish Water calls a shared supply pipe usual for both.
Hamaad judges a leak by how the whole heating or water system is behaving, a skill his ADI profile puts down to his years in heating and pipework, so in a flat or a house the wet patch is only one of his clues. A central heating leak is the job in Brian M.'s Trustpilot review: Hamaad located the suspect area in less than an hour, and it was all fixed and checked quickly afterwards.
Cardonald (G52) was once a village, and Glasgow annexed it in 1926. It lies in south-west Glasgow, bounded to the south by the White Cart Water, with Penilee to the west and Paisley Road West linking it to the old village of Halfway. North Cardonald was mostly owner-occupied houses and council homes, and South Cardonald mostly cottage flats. A hidden leak here can sit under a house's floor or come through the ceiling of a lower cottage flat, so it is traced and marked before a floorboard or ceiling is touched.
No engineer is booked for a Cardonald leak until ADI Leak Detection's office team has spoken to the customer.
Falling boiler pressure, a ceiling stain, damp around the bath, an unexplained warm or damp patch, weak flow at the taps, damp after rain and drain smells are all signs of a hidden leak in a Cardonald home. Find the sign you have in the table, and the last column names the investigation that traces it.
| The sign | What it usually means | The investigation |
|---|---|---|
| Boiler pressure keeps falling, or radiators need bleeding again and again | Water escaping from heating pipework, a radiator or underfloor heating, often somewhere out of sight | Central heating leak detection |
| A damp stain growing on a ceiling | Pipework on the floor above, a bathroom or the roof, or the upper flat if you live in a lower cottage flat | Ceiling leak detection |
| Damp or loose tiles around a bath, shower or toilet | Failed grout or sealant, a cracked tray, or a leak on the pipes hidden behind it | Bathroom leak detection |
| A warm patch on a floor, or damp on a wall with no visible cause | A leaking hot or cold pipe buried in the floor or wall; warmth points to the hot side | Hot and cold water pipe leak detection |
| Weak flow at every tap in the house | Sometimes the supply pipe, leaking somewhere between the boundary and your stop valve | Water mains (supply pipe) leak detection |
| Damp that shows up after heavy rain | Rainwater getting in where tiles, flashing or guttering have failed | Roof leak detection |
| A drain smell indoors, or the same blockage coming back | Cracks or a parted joint somewhere along the drain or waste pipe, letting water out | Drainage leak investigation |
ADI Leak Detection offers the seven investigations below, one for each part of a flat or house where a leak can hide, with the main equipment for each.
Tracks a supply pipe leak wherever it is between the stop cock at the boundary and the stop valve indoors, under a lawn, path or drive, on a pipe of your own or one shared with neighbours.
Equipment: acoustic ground microphones and tracer gas
For a boiler that needs constant topping up, or a header tank that keeps filling, this finds which radiator, pipe or underfloor loop is leaking.
Equipment: tracer gas, thermal imaging and pressure testing
Pins down which hot or cold pipe is leaking out of sight, in a wall, under a floor or above a ceiling, so the opening goes in the right place.
Equipment: acoustic listening, thermal imaging, tracer gas and borescope
Tests the shower, bath, sink and toilet, and the concealed pipework around them, to find which one is letting water through.
Equipment: thermal imaging, moisture meters and borescope
A ceiling stain is followed up to its cause, be it the roof, a bathroom or pipes running under the floor above.
Equipment: thermal imaging, moisture meters and acoustic methods
Pinpoints the place rainwater enters, on a pitched or flat roof, at the flashing or along the gutters. ADI Leak Detection reports where it is, and a roofer then carries out the repair.
Equipment: thermal imaging, moisture meters and drone inspection
A CCTV camera survey of foul and surface water drains shows the cracks and displaced joints that leave damp, smells or blockages behind.
Equipment: CCTV drain survey and acoustic listening
Nothing is opened while ADI Leak Detection searches with the five non-invasive methods below. At the school in the case study, Hamaad's report records thermal imaging, damp meter readings, acoustic testing and an endoscope camera.
Once the pipe is isolated and filled with tracer gas, a detector finds the gas where it surfaces above the damage, even through a lawn, path or solid floor.
Listening equipment hears water escaping a pressurised pipe, loudest right above the leak.
A thermal camera shows warm areas where hot water or heating water is escaping under a floor or behind a wall.
Meter readings across a wall or floor show where damp is worst and where the wet area ends.
A slim camera on a flexible cable looks at pipes inside voids, ducts and walls through a small hole or an existing hatch.
For a Cardonald flat or house, that depends on where the water is coming from. Leaks on plumbing, central heating and water mains are fixed by ADI Leak Detection under its guarantee on all repair work, or you can choose an independent plumber. Roof and structural leaks get located and written up, ready for a roofer or builder to put right.
The engineer who traced your leak can also repair it, and since they already know exactly where it is, nobody has to find it twice.
An independent plumber has two things to go on: the mark left on site and the written report, which records the leak's position. Nothing about a repair is discussed until the engineer has explained the leak to you.
A leak on the supply pipe, which runs from the boundary stop cock to the stop valve inside a Cardonald flat or house, is the owner's responsibility. Scottish Water answers for the rest: the main under the street, the communication pipe and the stop cock itself. In flats and terraced houses, which make up the bulk of Cardonald's homes, Scottish Water says that pipe is usually shared.
Look for trace and access cover in your buildings insurance. Plenty of policies include it, and it pays to locate an escape of water and open up enough to reach it, within a limit your policy sets.
Every ADI Leak Detection investigation is written up afterwards by the engineer who carried it out. Photographs and video go into the report, and its layout follows what "Trace and Access" and "Escape of Water" insurance claims need.
Describe your Cardonald leak on 0141 363 0314, and you will be told which investigation it needs.
Call 0141 363 0314Each review below names Hamaad and is copied from Trustpilot unchanged.
Excellent service. Simple as that. Contacted them about a leak in our central heating system and they explained their process for investigating to find it. Hamaad came out with all the equipment and had located the suspect area in less than an hour and it was all fixed and checked out really quickly after. It might seem like a high price for this service but it really minimises the amount of upheaval this type of problem can cause. ADI, and particularly Hamaad, you’re a star!
Read on TrustpilotHamaad , our service engineer , was very thorough and explained the work he carried out very clearly. He promptly identified the issue , but made further checks to ensure there were no other faults. I was very impressed with his work, attitude and communication.
Read on TrustpilotVery polite and courteous excellent at his job leak was found very easily and repaired. 5 stars
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