Gene's Plumbing handles leak detection across Hickory and the surrounding area — licensed, insured and available for emergencies.
Leak detection in Hickory starts with a meter check and a pressure test, which tells us whether water is leaving the system at all and roughly how fast. Only then do the listening devices and thermal camera come out.
Every house handles leak detection a little differently depending on its age, and Hickory has plenty of both old and new. The fitting, the pipe material and the way the last plumber left it all change what the right repair is.
That is why the Hickory truck carries parts for more than one era of plumbing. The leak detection job gets finished on the first visit wherever it can be, because a second trip costs you a day and costs us the trust.
How the job actually runs, start to finish.
Tell us what you are seeing, hearing or smelling. If water is actively running into the house, you get walked to your main shutoff before anything else is discussed.
Finding the real cause is what keeps the repair small. Opening one square foot of wall instead of twenty starts with knowing exactly where to open it.
If there is a cheaper option that will actually hold, you hear about it. If the cheap option is a patch that fails in six months, you hear that too.
The repair gets made with proper materials, pressure tested where the job allows, and checked in front of you before anything is closed back up.
What people want to know before booking this work.
It depends on what the diagnosis turns up, which is why you get a firm price for your leak detection job in Hickory before any work starts rather than an hourly rate that runs while you wait.
You get a straight answer on that. Plenty of Hickory customers are told their leak detection situation can reasonably wait a season, and plenty are told it cannot. The diagnosis decides it, not the sales value.
Absolutely. If another company has quoted you for leak detection in Hickory, a second look either finds a smaller fix or confirms the first diagnosis so you can spend with confidence.
Anything actively leaking or backing up is treated as same-day in Hickory. Scheduled leak detection work is usually booked within two or three business days.
Feedback from customers who had this work done.
"Burst pipe in the crawlspace in January. He had the main off and the section cut out before I finished explaining. Pressure tested it in front of me before he closed it up."
"Solid water heater install. Price fair, work clean. Would have liked a little more warning on the arrival time, but the job itself was right."
"Ran a new gas line for the range and the dryer. Pulled the permit, passed inspection first try, and cleaned up the drill shavings in the utility room."