Our Process
How a job runs in Old Bridge, step by step: free quote, written scope, written quote, sign-off - and the cheaper option named when there is one.
Sequence
Four steps, start to finish
Which water it is and where it gets out, settled before anything is opened or dug.
Watch the meter, note the weather
With every faucet closed and nothing filling, watch the meter's low-flow indicator for a minute, then again an hour later. Note too whether the water you are seeing turned up after rain. Those two facts decide most of the first phone call.
Tell us where the meter lives
A pit near the curb or the basement wall. It changes which leaks the dial can see at all: a buried line feeding an inside meter can leak for weeks without moving it, and then the yard is the evidence.
We sort before we search
Supply, drains and groundwater are tested apart — pressure on the lines, water run through the drains, the timing checked against the rain. Equipment comes out once the problem belongs to one system.
The source, marked and written down
A mark on the wall, floor or lawn, a note of how it was found, and a plain description of the repair it points to. Hire anyone you like for that repair; the mark and the note belong to you.
What it costs
Every price on one page
Estimated ranges for Middlesex County homes. Your own written quote comes after we have seen it.
Leak Detection - estimated $150 - $400
Set by how much is still unexplained.
Water Line Leak Detection - estimated $150 - $450
Set by the run from curb to wall.
Basement Leak Detection - estimated $150 - $400
Supply, drain or ground, settled first.
Wall Leak Detection - estimated $150 - $400
Found before the drywall is cut.
Emergency Leak Detection - estimated $150 - $400 plus after-hours
The after-hours charge is named first.
Before anything is opened
Four checks that come before any digging
Only the last one involves us; the first can be done tonight in ten minutes.
Watch the meter with the house quiet
Close every faucet, check that the toilets, ice maker and softener are not filling, and watch the low-flow indicator for a minute. Look again an hour later. Any movement means supply water is going somewhere it should not.
Set the water against the weather
Note when the wet patch appears. Water that shows up after heavy rain and is gone in a dry week points outside the house; water that stays whatever the weather points at a pipe. That timing alone settles a lot of basement calls.
Find out where your meter is
A pit near the curb or the basement wall. If it is inside, water escaping from the buried run before it reaches the meter never registers, and the yard or the foundation wall becomes the clue.
Ask for the range before the visit
Detection here is an estimated $150 to $400, a little more on a long or deep service line. Whoever gives you a number should be able to say what pushed it up or down.
Availability
Why the sorting comes before the searching
The part of the visit nobody expects, said plainly.
A ground microphone or a thermal camera is only useful once the problem belongs to one system. Pointed at a basement wall that is wet from rain, it finds nothing, slowly. So the first part of any visit here is sorting: is the supply losing water, is a drain, or is the ground simply wet? In a township with wetlands and stream floodplains mapped across it, that question earns its place.
Most of that sorting you can start yourself. The meter with the house quiet tells you about the supply. The timing against the rain tells you about the ground. Running the washer and watching the floor drain tells you about the drains. Every one of them closes off part of the search before a dollar is spent.
- An estimated range on the call, before the visit
- The free checks walked through at no charge
- Locating and repair priced as two separate jobs
- Told when the answer is groundwater, not a pipe
Want a number on it?
Call (732) 402-8508, say what you are seeing, and leave the call with a written quote and a time for Old Bridge.
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(732) 402-8508Which water it is and where it gets out, settled before anything is opened or dug.
Before you call
- Meter read with every fixture closed
- Groundwater ruled in or out before a pipe is blamed
Where we work
Every area we cover