Nothing to look at directly
No crawlspace, nothing below grade to check. Every supply and drain line runs inside or beneath concrete, so whatever you notice first is a symptom, never the pipe.
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Leak detection in South Florida, located before a wall gets opened
Acoustic listening, a thermal camera and pressure testing narrow a hidden leak to one point, so the cut lands where the pipe actually failed, not where the water surfaced.
Why isn’t the wet spot where the leak actually is?
Once a supply line loses its seal under a slab, the water rarely stays where it let go. South Florida’s water table sits only a few feet down, and the fill under most houses here is loose enough that escaping water spreads outward long before it ever rises to the surface. It shows up wherever the path happens to be easiest: a grout line, a hairline crack, a low corner of a room, almost never directly above the actual failure.
None of what shows on the surface, a wet patch, a tile warmer than the rest, water you can just barely hear, tells you where to cut. Treat any of it as the location and a small repair grows into a large one fast.
Detection leans on three instruments working together: acoustic gear that listens for the escape itself, a thermal camera that reads the temperature difference a hot-water leak leaves behind, and a pressure test that isolates which line lost pressure in the first place.
What you’re noticing
Signs that water is moving under the floor
None of these pinpoints the break alone. All are worth acting on.
A water bill that jumped
No change in household use, yet the bill climbed; a slab leak runs nonstop and never lets up overnight.
A warm patch on the tile
A hot-water line leaking under the slab warms the concrete above it, usually wider than the leak and off to one side.
Water you can hear but not see
Every fixture off, yet a faint running sound comes through the floor, a pressurized line, not a drain.
Pressure dropping at every tap
Weaker flow everywhere, not just one fixture, means the loss sits upstream of the fixtures themselves.
Dampness along a baseboard or seam
Water rises wherever it first can. A damp baseboard means the water traveled, not where it started.
How the visit unfolds
From a damp floor to a marked spot
Four steps, always in that order, each one narrows the next.
- 01
Isolate which system is losing pressure
A pressure test finds whether the loss is on a supply line or a drain. Searching the wrong system is the costliest mistake here.
- 02
Listen, then scan
Acoustic equipment picks up the escape; a thermal camera picks up the temperature gradient. Together they narrow the run to a small area.
- 03
Mark the spot
A mark goes on the floor showing where the break sits, made before any tool touches the slab, so the reasoning stays visible to you.
- 04
Open, repair, then document it
One opening over the marked spot, then photographs and an itemized invoice in the form an adjuster will ask for.
Why detection is harder on this coast
Slab, salt air, and a water table that shifts
Finding a hidden leak takes more here than it does further inland.
A water table close to the surface
Escaping water spreads sideways through the fill instead of pooling, which is why the wet spot rarely sits above the break.
Storm season shifts the ground itself
Heavy rain lifts the water table and pushes upward against foundations, part of why leaks surface more in the wet months.
Salt air attacks copper from outside
Near the coast, copper supply lines corrode from the outside too, so a pinhole can appear in a line that isn’t old.
Hot and cold leaks behave differently
A thermal camera finds a hot-water leak fast and a cold-water leak barely at all, so the failed line decides the tool.
Recent jobs
Real jobs, photographed on site
Taken by the crew on the day of the job, not pulled from stock.
Failed flange out, drain opened up 
Toilet reset after the flange repair 
Exterior cleanout set at the wall line 
Tankless unit piped in copper 
Tankless install, powered and running 
Tank heater in a tight utility closet 
Under-sink filtration, lines dressed 
Cable in the line at a wall cleanout 
Reading the wall before opening it 
Fixture swap, sealed and set
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See all reviews on GoogleId be completely comfortable having them back for future plumbing work. Everything about this visit was straightforward and well handled.
He even explained which work wasn't worth spending money on yet. That's the kind of honesty that makes me want to call someone again.
Nothing about the job looked rushed. From the repair itself to the final testing, everything was handled carefully and professionally.
Questions
Answered before you call
Can you find a leak without breaking the floor?
Finding it, yes. Every method here reads through the slab without disturbing it. Fixing it still means opening the floor, just at one small, correctly chosen spot.
How accurate is it?
Accurate enough to justify a single opening rather than several. On a long run buried under tile or furniture, expect an area rather than an exact pinpoint, and you’ll be told which you’re getting.
Is a slab leak an emergency?
Not sudden, but constant. It won’t put water across the floor in an hour, yet it never stops running either, and a season is too long to leave it.
Could it be the pool or the irrigation instead?
Often, and it’s worth ruling out before any floor gets opened. Both run as their own pressurized systems, checked with the same equipment.
Do you repair what you find?
Often, in the same visit, when the fix is simple. When a whole section of line has given out rather than one spot, replacing that run is the honest call.
What comes next
Where a leak visit usually leads
The repairs a detection visit most often turns into.
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