San Diego Leak Detection

Had a slab leak and called Darryl. He said he’d come same-day. He rolled in at 2pm, right on time. Showed up at the door with no tools, but I walked him through where my water main was, where I was hearing the leak, and where the bathrooms were. He walks around for a minute and we go back outside to the water main. He stands there for a minute thinking, and with no tools and no detector, he says… well, if I was building your house and I was plumbing it from the ground up, I’d run one 3/4 line from here to the kitchen and then on to the 2nd floor bathrooms, and I’d run a separate 3/4 line off to the water heater and the downstairs bathroom. We can hear the leak in the downstairs bathroom but the hot water shutoff doesn’t eliminate it, so I think it’s a cold water leak between the main and the downstairs bathroom, in the slab.

Then he went out to his truck and got some Ghostbusters-style equipment, hooks it all up, the water lines are exactly where he predicted, and the leak is exactly where he said it would be. I contracted a different guy to come and replace it the next day, and it went just like Darryl said it would.

Totally amazing. 10/10. Rare to find a contractor who knows his stuff like this.

I am very glad I went with Darrel. He found where the leak was under the slab, marked out the location of the pipes, and took time to find where the pipes came up in the walls so that we could simply cap The pipe that fed the leak under the slab, and then reroute the water supply through the wall and the back of the kitchen cabinets. He was also nice, and very knowledgeable.