Weavers' cottages, new-town estates and hill farms all lose water differently — and none of them needs to be dug up to find out where. Our Newtown surveys locate the leak first, for a fixed £480 + VAT.
As the largest town in Powys, Newtown anchors our Mid Wales coverage. Property owners along the Severn — and on the farms in the hills either side of it — call us about ceilings that drip after every heating cycle, meters that record use overnight, and private supplies that mysteriously run low in summer.
Distance changes our scheduling, not our service. Montgomeryshire surveys are grouped onto planned route days, confirmed when you book, and carried out for the same fixed £480 + VAT as anywhere else on the map. There is no mileage charge and no small-town premium.
Whether the property is a Penygloddfa cottage or a farmhouse above Kerry, the output is identical: a precise leak location plus a written report with thermal images, moisture data and photographs, formatted for trace and access insurance claims.
Local knowledge
Newtown's oldest streets tell the story of the Welsh flannel trade. Penygloddfa's early nineteenth-century weavers' cottages — some still showing their top-floor loomshop windows — and the Victorian terraces around the centre were plumbed long after they were built, with services squeezed through solid walls and shallow floor voids wherever they would fit. Retrofitted pipework like that fails in awkward, concealed places, and escaping water can travel a long way through old fabric before betraying itself.
Then came the town's second act: designation for expansion in 1967 under the Mid Wales Development Corporation, which built out Trehafren, Treowen, Vaynor and Maesyrhandir through the 1970s and into the 1980s. These estates rely on concrete ground floors with heating pipes in the screed — now approaching fifty years old and increasingly prone to pinholes that soak the slab invisibly. The third era is rural: farms and cottages in the surrounding hills on private springs and long buried supply lines, where a single split can waste thousands of litres unseen.
WHAT WE FIND IN NEWTOWN
Coverage
Bookings are taken across Newtown and the surrounding Montgomeryshire countryside — the estates ringing the town, the villages of the Severn valley and the upland communities towards Kerry and Tregynon. Every SY16 address is covered at the fixed price.
Postcode areas covered: SY16
Our methods
On the new-town estates, thermal imaging is usually the opening move: a heating leak under screed shows as a warm bloom within minutes of the system firing, and tracer gas then fixes the exact point through the slab. The older stock and rural supply runs get the acoustic-and-gas treatment instead, tracing water through stone, soil and tarmac without disturbance. Borescope checks and moisture-meter mapping verify every finding before we mark up, so repairs in Newtown are single, small and certain.
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.
Newtown FAQs
Answers specific to Newtown properties and how we work in the area.
Yes — long private supply lines are a regular part of our Powys work. We test the run under pressure, trace it with gas sensing along its full length and mark where the water is escaping, whether that is beside the yard or three fields away. The price remains £480 + VAT.
We do, on planned route days across Montgomeryshire. You get a confirmed date when you book — typically within the week — and the survey, report and fixed fee are identical to a job around the corner from our base. Call 01639 999 999 to get the next available date.
On the Mid Wales Development Corporation estates that symptom almost always points to a pinhole in the heating pipework within the concrete floor. We confirm it with thermal imaging and tracer gas, locate the precise point and hand you the evidence — without breaking out any slab to search.
If your buildings policy includes trace and access cover — and most do — the cost of professionally locating a hidden leak is normally reimbursable. Our report is compiled with that claim in mind, including thermal images, readings and photographs.
Yes, subject to route planning — we survey 9am to 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays and 9am to 5pm on weekdays, and weekend dates can be arranged for Newtown when booked ahead.
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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