Pipe Location

We are specialists at tracing water pipes and finding water leaks. Whether underground outside, or under concrete or wooden floors indoors, we have invested in some of the best water pipe location equipment available in the industry.  Every van is equipped with over £20,000 of Hi-tech equipment to help find your water pipes, detect and fix water leaks and find drain pipe defects.

As part of locating pipes, we typically use a combination of equipment including Signal generators, Pipe Knockers, Tracer reels and Drainage cameras.

How do you locate an underground water pipe?

Utility Tracing and Pipe Locating are methods used to accurately find underground water pipes such as mains water supply pipes, underground drain pipes, electric cables and gas pipes.

It allows us to collect accurate data which aids us in many ways, such as detecting leaks on underground water pipes, locating blockages within an underground drain pipe, locating a hidden septic tank, mapping of field drains and ensuring a site is clear of underground service before any excavation work is carried out.

Whether it by conductive metallic or non conductive plastic piping, our investment in pipe tracing equipment allows us a high level of accuracy in our investigations

Signal Generators

A signal generator is connected to a conductive material such as copper pipe with a secondary cable earthed into the ground through an earthing spike.

Once connected the signal generator sends a pre-selected frequency signal through the line allowing us to track and find the underground pipe with the use of a Signal Receiver.

Our equipment allows us to adjust our signals from 0.01 hz through 200 khz, giving us the ability to track long distance underground pipes with high frequencies or short distance at low frequencies.

Comophone knocker

The combophone knocker is effective on all non conductive materials like Alkathene or MDPE water supply lines and pipes where little access is available.

The knocker is a battery powered unit which straps around the water pipe and works like a small piston, driving out a metal shaft which knocks against the water pipe, which in turn sends out a heartbeat like sound along the pipe.

Our ground microphones are able to listen for that heartbeat like sound and follow it along the presumed pipeline, allowing us to trace the line from point A to Point B with high accuracy.

Glass Fibre Reel

The glass fibre reel is a highly effective and accurate way of tracing a service line like non conductive mains water supply pipes, drainage or even service ducting from as small as 15mm.

The reel is inserted and fed continuously into the line, while a signal receiver unit, is used to track the reel by via the sonde attached to the reel head.

This provides high accuracy in finding the path of the service and its depth.

CCTV Drain Camera

The CCTV Drain camera is a camera attached to a 70 meter fiber optic reel with a sonde at its head.

This serves a dual purpose within the drainage sector, we able to visually see what is going on below ground and at the same time trace the line of the service pipe.

This provides for great accuracy in locating the pipe defect, digging down and final repairs, all helping to reduce overall costs.