San Diego Plumbing Repair: Finding Water Leaks in the Home. SAN DIEGO PLUMBING REPAIR: Finding Water Leaks in the Home. Plumbing Leaks, (Manually Locating Leaks). Check your WATER METER there is usually a little dial which will spin when water is in use. Make sure no water is being used. If no water is being used the little red dial Should not be spinning. Are all leaks easy to find mostly? yea. First of all the most obvious leaks being the ones you can see faucet, shower valve, hose bib, a leak in the wall, Usually you just open the wall but FIRST check to see that the water is not coming from and upstairs plumbing fixture.
San Diego Plumbing Repair Tip. Determining Slab Leak. Whether It's on The Hot or Cold Water side. If You can turn off the Water shut valve. VERY IMPORTANT, BE CAREFUL SOMETIMES Valves which you turn in a circle. Globe Valves will be frozen and can break. Anyways if you managed to turn water off on the Hot Water Heater, and the Water Meter dial stops spinning. And the leak should stop Then you've located the leak, Slab leak on the hot side. One more thing you might try to determine if it's on the Hot Side. Check to see if the floor feels hot, by touching with hands, careful floor might be Hot, Usually around the kitchen Area). If the leak persists (The Water Meter Dial Keeps Spinning) then it's probably the cold water, now if it's the hot water you can turn valve off. If the valve above the water heater is frozen ( usually gate valves) don't force it, (it CAN BREAK). Recommends work be done quickly. San Diego Plumbing Repair should be done Immediately because water will weaken the foundation underneath the slab. Slab Leaks Should be repaired A.S.A.P. Because even if you can turn
water off temporarily, water Buildups underneath the slab and is not good for foundations. P.S. IT IS ALWAYS RECOMMENDED to LET a PROFESSIONAL do THE WORK. (Please check future articles on Locating Leaks,) A PLUMBER SAN DIEGO Ca. PLUMBER SAN DIEGO writes on Finding Water Leaks in the Home. A Plumber San Diego writes about theory and experience in plumbing. Now I don't propose to say, that I THINK I know everything in plumbing but I will give my best in theory and practice of Plumbing (28+ Years Experience) in what I have found that works and unbelievable as it sounds but I truly never get a callback or complaint about the work I have done (well almost never).