Block of flats
Water through a bedroom ceiling
A building manager showed ADI a bedroom ceiling with water dripping through it. Pressure tests narrowed the search to the hot-water feed, and tracer gas led to a leaking copper pipe under a boiler.
Read the hot-water pipe case study
Block of apartments
Damage below, low pressure above
The lower apartment had a damaged ceiling and wall while the boiler upstairs kept losing pressure. Tracer gas and an endoscope found old, disused heating pipework leaking behind the units.
Read the redundant heating pipe case study
Flat in a block of eight, Dumbarton
A constant drip into a hallway
With shared stopcocks and no way into the neighbouring homes, the search stayed inside one flat. The leak turned out to be on a stop valve hidden under the hallway floorboards.
Read the Dumbarton stop valve case study