Radiant heat floors can bring such a cozy feel to your home, especially during cold winter months. And they open the option for using a variety of materials in your flooring materials, such as slate, that you might not otherwise consider due to how cold these materials get.
But the catch with radiant heat floors is that they require heating water tubes. So if the heating water tubes start leaking, you might only know that your floors aren’t as warm as they used to be. To fix the issue, you might need to remove the entire floor unless you use gaseous leak detection and a thermal camera to assess the issue.
ACS Underground Solutions has extensive experience in assessing radiant heat flooring to limit destruction when repairing these floors.
We’ll explain how these methods work, the benefits they provide homeowners and how to schedule your assessment today.
Finding Leaks in Radiant Heat Floors Without Destruction
Radiant Heat Floor water tubes are often within the cement subfloor or directly beneath your flooring material, depending on your home’s structure. You might be able to spot an approximate leak location based on damage to your flooring material. But in other cases, the leak doesn’t permeate or impact your flooring material, making it challenging to find.
If you don’t find the leak, you could end up with mold, mildew, rot or even insect infestations within your floors.
We offer two methods for detecting these leaks. The first is through using gaseous leak detection. This works in the following way.
- We fill your Radiant Heat pipes with a safe gas.
- The gas will seep out of the same location where fluid is leaking out of your pipes, but it will rise to the surface where we can detect it.
- Using a special sniffing device, we’ll locate with near perfection the location of your leak.
Alternatively, we’ll use a thermal camera to show us where the leak is. This camera detects temperatures to show us hot areas of your floor versus cooler areas. We then use this information to guide us to the problem areas where your lines are leaking.
Benefits of Non-destructive Radiant Heat Floor Failure Detection Methods
The most obvious benefit of using these non-invasive, non-destructive methods for detecting issues with your radiant heat floors is that you don’t have to fully remove the floors to locate the issue. But there are several other benefits of using these methods.
- Faster fix to get you back to enjoying your floors
- Lower cost than removing the floors to find the issue
- Reduce damage to your flooring by finding leaks fast
ACS Underground Solutions offers 24/7 service to help you avoid costly long-term damage to your home when your Radiant Heat Floors leak or fail. Contact us immediately at 203-544-7190 if you suspect an issue with your floors in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
ACS UNDERGROUND SOLUTIONS | Non-destructive Leak Detection for Radiant Heat Floors
ACS Underground Solutions has been in business since 1997 and we continue to serve our clients during COVID 19 with the CDC safety guidance put in place. Give ACS Underground Solutions a call at 203-544-7190 to find out more about our services. Our office staff is available Monday-Friday, 8am to 5pm to answer your questions and schedule an appointment. We are a private family owned consulting company with decades of experience and deep expertise in Water Line Leak Detection, Underground Utility Locating with GPR, Underground Storage Tank Locating, Concrete Imaging & Scanning, Drain Pipe Inspections and Infrared Thermal Imaging Services. ACS Underground Solutions serves Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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