Does anyone do this for a living?
I've been doing it for about a year now but feel I could do it better so wondered how others do it.
The obvious ones are easy, where the water is actually surfacing but the mystery ones are not so easy to detect.
I usually use a listening stick to try and hear the leak. If I can't hear it I can remove the internal stop tap and (depending on the pipe) use an inflatable detector which pressurises different lengths of pipe untill the lean is found.
If I can't use that's it's usually a case of tracing the line of the pipe with the genny or trace wire and choosing a place to dig so I can either squeeze off or cut and cap the pipe, then chase the leak from there.
It just all seems a bit hit and miss. Today I had a go with a Correlator and Seba electric listening stick, they seemed decent and I'm going to trial the stick for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure the Correlator suits me being on my own.
Does anyone do anything different or could offer any advice?
Cheers, Ian
I've been doing it for about a year now but feel I could do it better so wondered how others do it.
The obvious ones are easy, where the water is actually surfacing but the mystery ones are not so easy to detect.
I usually use a listening stick to try and hear the leak. If I can't hear it I can remove the internal stop tap and (depending on the pipe) use an inflatable detector which pressurises different lengths of pipe untill the lean is found.
If I can't use that's it's usually a case of tracing the line of the pipe with the genny or trace wire and choosing a place to dig so I can either squeeze off or cut and cap the pipe, then chase the leak from there.
It just all seems a bit hit and miss. Today I had a go with a Correlator and Seba electric listening stick, they seemed decent and I'm going to trial the stick for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure the Correlator suits me being on my own.
Does anyone do anything different or could offer any advice?
Cheers, Ian