Leak Detection in Spring Lake Farms

Spring Lake Farms was started in 1991, the earliest of the neighborhoods on this site, so its first houses are about 35 years old. Single-family homes sit alongside duplexes and townhouses, and in the attached ones a leak in a shared wall can surface next door first. Leak detection in Spring Lake Farms begins with the original stops and fixture connections, the parts that have spent longest under the village's hard water. In a house this age, a main shutoff that has not been turned in years is worth testing gently, with someone there, before the night it is needed.

Most of Lake in the Hills went up after 1990, when the village had 5,866 people; it had 28,982 by 2020. Its plumbing is mostly one building era on hard well water, and it leaks out of sight: behind drywall, above a finished ceiling, or in the buried line from the b-box.

• Original stops looked at first
• Shared walls tested from both homes
• Main shutoff exercised and checked
• Estimated range stated before booking

Started in 1991. The oldest boom houses here.

1. 1

   Read the red flow indicator

   Everything off, softener included, then look at the meter head. If the red indicator turns, water is leaving past the meter. Check the toilet flappers too; the village names them as the usual cause.

2. 2

   Tell us where the meter is

   An indoor meter cannot see the buried line from the b-box, so where yours sits decides which tests come first. A stain or an odd bill is enough to start.

3. 3

   We isolate, then listen and scan

   Valves close one section at a time until one branch is left. Then acoustic listening, thermal imaging and moisture readings, or a pressure test and tracer gas outside.

4. 4

   The spot is marked and written up

   The location is marked on the wall, floor or lawn, with the readings that found it. Any repair is quoted separately, and the finding is yours to use.