Pembrokeshire's county town is a fair drive from Neath, but the deal does not change when we cross into SA61: one visit, the full detection kit, and a fee settled at £480 + VAT before we leave base.
Haverfordwest anchors our Pembrokeshire coverage. We survey homes and businesses in the town itself — from the steep streets below the castle to the estates at Merlins Bridge and Portfield — and travel on into the SA62 villages, from Johnston out to the coast at Broad Haven and along the road towards St Davids.
Because of the distance, these jobs are planned with care. Before travelling we talk through the symptoms on the phone — meter behaviour, boiler pressure, where the damp is showing — so the right approach is ready the moment we arrive. Mileage never alters the fee: £480 + VAT in Haverfordwest, exactly as it is in Neath.
Holiday lets and second homes are woven into Pembrokeshire life, and an unnoticed leak in an empty property is an expensive thing. Our documentation gives owners and their insurers a clear record of where the water escaped, what it damaged and the evidence behind both conclusions.
Local knowledge
The old town stacks up a hillside above the Western Cleddau, and its Georgian and Victorian buildings — many now shops with flats above — thread their plumbing through thick rubble-stone walls and beneath timber floors that have shifted over the centuries. Water from a failed pipe follows that old structure unpredictably, often surfacing a room or even a storey away from the fault. Prendergast's terraced streets across the river share the same era and the same habits.
Post-war and modern estates at Merlins Bridge, Portfield and out towards Withybush trade those problems for concrete floors and embedded heating, where the first symptom is usually a pressure gauge creeping downwards. In the surrounding SA62 countryside, cottages and smallholdings depend on long buried supplies, and near the coast a combination of exposed fittings and seasonal occupancy means a winter burst in an empty holiday home can run for weeks unseen.
WHAT WE FIND IN HAVERFORDWEST
Coverage
SA61 covers the town — the centre, Prendergast, Portfield, Merlins Bridge and the Withybush fringe — and we carry the identical service across SA62: Johnston towards the Haven, Broad Haven and Little Haven on the coast, and north-west through Solva to St Davids.
Postcode areas covered: SA61 · SA62
Our methods
Old stone buildings punish assumptions, so in Haverfordwest we let the instruments lead. Moisture mapping establishes the true extent of the wetting; thermal imaging distinguishes a live heating leak from historic damp held in a cold wall; and tracer gas or acoustic listening then follows the suspect pipe to its failure point. The borescope reaches into floor voids and behind panelling through openings small enough to vanish under a dab of filler.
A safe hydrogen-nitrogen mix escapes through the smallest defects — traced above ground to pinpoint the leak.
Non-toxicInfrared surveying reveals temperature anomalies behind floors, walls and ceilings.
Non-contactAmplifies the distinctive sound of pressurised water escaping from mains, copper and MDPE pipework.
UndergroundA flexible camera inspects wall cavities, floor voids and boxing-in through the smallest access point.
Minimal accessComparative readings across plaster, timber and concrete map water migration and confirm findings.
Evidence-gradePricing
Many leak detection companies charge £100+ per hour with no way of knowing the final bill. Our Trace & Find survey is a fixed £480 + VAT — however long it takes to find your leak.
A complete leak detection survey with the right equipment for your property.
no hourly rates · no hidden costs
Once located, repairs are quoted separately — every repair varies by leak type, pipework and access.
Priced individually to reflect the size, complexity and requirements of each project.
Answer a few quick questions and we will point you to the right fixed price.
Haverfordwest FAQs
Answers specific to Haverfordwest properties and how we work in the area.
We do — it is about an hour and twenty-five minutes each way, so Pembrokeshire surveys are scheduled in advance rather than same-day. We attend seven days a week: 9am to 5pm on weekdays and 9am to 2pm at weekends.
No. The Trace & Find survey is £480 + VAT wherever we carry it out — the distance to SA61 or SA62 makes no difference to the invoice.
That is exactly the question the survey settles. Moisture profiling and thermal imaging reveal whether the wall is being fed by a pressurised pipe, and if it is, tracer gas and acoustics take us to the failure point. If it is not, you avoid paying a plumber to fix a ventilation problem.
It is written for that audience. Each report presents the located fault, the detection methods applied, thermal and moisture evidence and full photographs — the substantiation trace and access cover requires before the policy pays out.
Yes, provided access can be arranged — many owners have a keyholder, cleaner or letting agent meet us. We complete the survey, secure the property and send the report and marked leak position the same way we would if you were standing beside us.
Book a non-invasive Trace & Find survey for a fixed £480 + VAT — we locate the source fast, with a full report for your records or insurer.
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