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Slab leak
repair.
Found under the concrete, fixed before the foundation pays for it.
Found under the concrete, fixed before the foundation pays for it.
A slab leak is a water line failing underneath the concrete your house sits on. It runs day and night, it does not show up as a puddle, and the first thing most people notice is the bill. Left alone, the water works on the soil under the foundation, and what started as a plumbing repair turns into a foundation repair.
Encore finds it first and opens the floor once, in the right place. Acoustic listening, line tracing and pressure testing tell us where the water actually is before a single tile comes up. That is the whole difference between a tidy repair and a house with holes in it.
Most people call after the bill arrives. These are the tells that come first.
A hot-water line under the slab heats the concrete above it. If one patch of floor is warm underfoot and the rest is not, that is a hot line leaking.
Shut every tap and appliance and stand still. A faint hiss or trickle means water is still moving somewhere it should not be.
Same household, same habits, a much bigger number. A slab leak runs twenty-four hours a day and it never shows up as a puddle.
Water under a foundation moves it. New cracks in brick or drywall and doors that suddenly stick are the slab telling you something changed.
Moisture wicking up through flooring, or that closed-up smell in a room nobody uses. It is coming from underneath.
Find the meter, note the dial, use no water for an hour. If it moved, you have a leak between the meter and the house.
Any two of these together is worth a call. A slab leak does not get better on its own, and the foundation is the expensive part.
Photographs from our own slab work — not stock, not somebody else’s job.
The leak is pinpointed and marked before anything is cut. One cut, in the right place.
A square access cut down to the line. Contained, tidy, and no bigger than the repair needs.
The line repaired or re-routed, then the concrete closed up and finished.
Not every slab leak should be reached through the floor. Where it makes more sense we tunnel in from outside, and the finished floors inside never get touched.
