How to check & diagnose water leaks at home?
If you are paying more than usual for your water utility bill, or discovering uncommon water (wet) spots on your walls & floors, then these are the suspicious signs of water leakages at your home! Join us to find out more about how to diagnose water leakages and recommended solutions.
How to detect for water leaks at home?
1. We strongly recommend you to check any "loose" taps or valves, as most of time it is due to our careless mistakes.
2. Please check the incoming supply line into your storage tank, malfunction float valve may cause water supply overflow. This happens most of the time, and can be rectify easily by changing to a new float valve.
3. Please ensure all stop valves including pressure pumps are switch off both inside and outside of the house.
4. For interior, please check all bathrooms and kitchens for any potential leaks through wet patches on the walls and floors.
5. For exterior, you could diagnose starting from entry point, which is the water meter by switching on & off the stop valves section by section. Through this, you could narrow down the detection.
6. For underground pipe lines, it's completely trial and error as it could be a multiple water leaks and not just from the joints.
7. Once you have fixed the water leaks, leave it for few days for observation prior patching or restoring to its original.
8. Please check your water meter & utility bill regularly, these are the signs of water leaks.
Water leaks can be very costly and disastrous, it is always good to have
preventive measures. Always remember to hire certified plumbers, and
use only certified water supply systems for your home or office.
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