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Water Leak Repair

If the meter keeps moving with every fixture off, water is escaping somewhere unseen, so close the main and call before it works into framing or under the footing.

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What a pro does

A plumber narrows the ground before searching it. Closing the valve where the service enters the house and then watching the meter settles the biggest question there is: still moving means the loss is out in the yard, stopping means it's inside the building. Inside is comparatively kind here, because a basement or a crawlspace lets a plumber get eyes and hands on most of the supply run without opening a wall. Outside is harder, and the local ground is why. Water escaping into fill over limestone can travel along a rock seam and surface a long way from the break, or find a fissure and never surface at all, which is why a wet spot in the grass is treated as a hint rather than as an answer. Acoustic locating and line tracing decide the dig. Older service lines through the mill neighbourhoods are frequently galvanised steel, and a plumber who finds one pinhole in a corroded run will say plainly that the rest of the line is the same age as the failure.

Frequently asked questions

Very much so, and it's common in limestone ground. Water can follow a seam in the rock or drain into a fissure and never reach the surface, so a service line can lose water steadily with a completely dry lawn above it. The meter is the honest witness, not the grass.
It often is, on old galvanised steel. The corrosion that produced the first hole has been working along the entire buried run for the same number of decades, so patching one spot frequently buys a short reprieve. A plumber will say which of the two the pipe's condition actually supports.
With a locator that follows a signal along the pipe to mark its route and depth, combined with acoustic equipment that listens for the sound of water escaping under pressure. Together those turn a whole yard into a marked area a few feet across before a spade comes out.
It varies by policy and by what the water reached, so contact your insurance provider before assuming anything either way. Photographs of the damage and a written note of what was found, taken before the repair starts, are what people generally wish they had on hand.

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