Lehigh Acres
Leak Detection
Non-Invasive Electronic Leak Location by McGrath Plumbing
Serving Lehigh Acres Homeowners & Businesses Across Southwest Florida — Since 2004!
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Lehigh Acres’s Trusted Leak Detection Pros
A water bill or electric bill that jumped for no reason. The sound of running water when everything’s off. A warm patch on the floor. If something’s leaking in your Lehigh Acres home and you can’t see where, McGrath Plumbing finds it with non-invasive electronic leak detection — no exploratory holes, no torn-up floors on a guess.
We pinpoint the leak with acoustic and line-tracing equipment, show you exactly what we found, and give you a firm plan to fix it. On Lehigh’s slab homes with big acre lots and long irrigation runs — and on well systems where a leak drives the pump instead of a water meter — precise location saves you money and floors.
Leak Detection Services We Provide in Lehigh Acres
Electronic Leak Detection
Acoustic listening and line tracing pinpoint hidden leaks under slabs, behind walls, and underground — located to inches, not rooms.
Slab Leak Location
A pressurized line leaking under the concrete slab — common in Lehigh’s older copper-plumbed homes. We confirm, map, and locate it precisely before anyone opens a floor.
Well-System & Irrigation Leaks
On a well, a leak makes the pump cycle constantly instead of showing on a meter. We trace well-line and irrigation leaks across Lehigh’s big lots, not just the house.
Repair After Detection
We don’t just hand you a report and leave — same company, same visit where possible: find it, show you, fix it.
Why Leak Detection Matters in Lehigh Acres
On a well, your pump is the leak alarm. Most of Lehigh is on private wells, so a hidden leak doesn’t show up on a city meter — instead it makes the well pump cycle on and off constantly, running up your electric bill and wearing out the pump. If your pump keeps kicking on when no one’s using water, that’s a classic sign of a hidden leak somewhere in the system, and we can trace it.
Slab leaks in the older homes. Lehigh’s established 1980s–2000s homes were largely built on slabs with copper supply lines, and after decades in our aggressive water, pinhole leaks under the slab happen — usually on the hot side first. Warm floor spots, running-water sounds, or a water heater that never rests are the tells. We locate them precisely so any repair is surgical.
Acre lots mean long runs and hidden water loss. Lehigh is famous for its big lots, and that means long irrigation and supply runs across a lot of ground — plenty of buried pipe where a leak runs unseen for weeks. When a bill spikes and the house checks out, the leak is often out in the yard or irrigation. We trace the whole property.
New construction isn’t immune. Even a recent Lehigh build can develop a leak — a fitting that wasn’t set right, a nail or screw through a line during construction, or a slab-penetration issue. Electronic detection finds it precisely without tearing into a brand-new home.
How Do You Find a Leak Without Tearing Up My House?
Acoustic equipment listens for the signature of pressurized water escaping a pipe; line locators map exactly where your plumbing runs; pressure testing isolates which line is losing water. Together they let us mark a leak within inches — so if a repair does need an opening, it’s one small precise spot instead of a hunt through your floors and walls.
Detection is quoted upfront, the $68 service call applies toward the work, and you’ll see the evidence yourself before any repair decision — we show you, not just tell you.
Also see our full Lehigh Acres plumbing services, slab leak repair across SWFL, and 24/7 emergency plumbing in Lehigh Acres.
Lehigh Acres Leak Detection FAQs
My well pump keeps running. Is that a leak?
Often, yes — on a well, a hidden leak makes the pump cycle constantly since there’s no city meter to flag the loss. A pump that won’t rest is a classic sign of a leak somewhere in the system, and we can trace it before it burns out the pump.
What are the signs of a slab leak in my Lehigh home?
Warm spots on the floor, running-water sounds when everything’s off, a water heater that never rests, cracked tile, damp baseboards, or an unexplained bill jump. Any one of these in an older slab-built Lehigh home is worth a check.
Can you find a leak without breaking my floors?
Yes — that’s the entire point of electronic detection. We locate the leak to within inches before anything is opened, so repairs are surgical, not destructive.
My bill jumped but I can’t find a leak. What now?
On a Lehigh acre lot it’s often out in the irrigation or a well line, not the house. We check for running toilets first, then pressure-test and trace the full property to find where the water’s going.
My home is a recent build with a suspected leak. Can it really leak already?
Yes — new construction can leak from a fitting that wasn’t set right or a fastener driven through a line during the build. We find it precisely without tearing into your new home.
How much does leak detection cost in Lehigh Acres?
It’s quoted as a flat visit upfront, and the $68 service call applies toward it. If we repair the leak, detection and repair are quoted together before work starts — no surprises.
THINK YOU HAVE A LEAK IN LEHIGH ACRES?
Electronic Detection • Slab, Well & Irrigation Lines • Same-Visit Repairs — 24/7
McGrath Plumbing, Drains & Water Heaters of Bonita Springs • Serving Lehigh Acres, FL • FL Lic. CFC1432700
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