If your Portland home was built before 1970, there is a good chance it still has some galvanized steel pipe in the walls, the crawl space, or underground. Galvanized pipe was the standard material for residential water supply lines for most of the 20th century. It was strong, widely available, and reasonably priced. But it…
Acoustic leak detection is a method for finding broken pipes without opening walls, cutting through floors, or digging up yards. It uses sound. When a pipe breaks under pressure, the escaping water creates a specific noise as it forces itself through the crack or hole. That noise travels through the pipe, through the surrounding material,…
A water bill that suddenly jumps 30, 50, or even 100 dollars is one of the most common things homeowners bring to us. The first instinct is usually to blame the water company. But in most cases the meter is accurate. The extra water is going somewhere. Here are eight of the most common hidden…
Your water meter is one of the best free tools you have for catching a hidden water leak. It sits outside near the street or along your foundation, and it records every drop of water that enters your home. Most people only look at it when the bill arrives. But the meter can tell you…
A slab leak is a broken pipe under your home concrete foundation. The pipe sits in or below the concrete slab. When it breaks, water soaks into the concrete and the ground beneath it. You usually cannot see it happening. By the time you smell or feel something wrong, that pipe may have been leaking…
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