What this repair is
Leak detection starts at the meter and the backflow. If the meter moves with every valve off, the leak is on the main or the house side. If it only moves when a zone is live, we walk that lateral.
We look for winter (rare here) and summer tells: mushrooms in a ring, ants abandoning a wet spot, a sidewalk that never dries, a hiss at a valve. Acoustic listening helps on long mains. A shovel still closes the file.
High bills in a Spring August are often a stuck valve watering from 2 a.m. until noon. That is a leak in effect. We treat it as one.
What homeowners usually call about
- Water bill jumped with no visible break
- Soft spots in the lawn
- Hissing at the backflow
- Meter spinning with everything “off”
- Sidewalk always wet
- HOA notice about runoff
How the visit goes
- Meter test All irrigation off. Watch the sweep.
- Zone isolation Open one station at a time.
- Walk the wet Probe, listen, mark.
- Open only the mark Repair, test, restore.
Sprinkler Leak Detection near you
We do this work around Spring, Texas. Start with the city closest to you: