Underground Water Leak detection is principally carried out using high resolution acoustic technology, from world leading suppliers of leak detection equipment. In very self-explanatory terms, it is a listening stick and picks up on sounds passing them through a microphone which are amplified through a machine.
With one of the largest and most diverse equipment stocks in the UK, we actively test and compare results from differing technologies to ensure the best results for our clients.
We use a new generation of Digital systems, which not only allow us to listen to the leak noise in a broad range, but we can slice the noise up into frequencies to reduce spurious noise like traffic and concentrate on just the leak.
The microphones also vary in cost and function. Low profile for under units, others sit on a small frame, some have a 1000mm spike for sticking in the dirt and one is even called the ‘Elephants Foot’!
Best results are delivered where there is hardly any sound in the vicinity of the area, so the quitter it is the better.