Canberra Water Leak Locating and Detection Services
About Canberra Water Leak Locating & Detection Service’s history as plumbers, drainers and gasfitters, our ethics and contact details, and the suburbs we service.
What We Do
We provide water and gas leak detection, location, and repair services; CCTV drain camera inspections; pipe location and plumbing inspections; and approval of unapproved plumbing work. We repair, replace and re-route broken and burst water and drainage pipes. We repair walls, slabs, and ceilings once the work is complete and offer a complete service from start to finish. We provide all these services in the Canberra and Queanbeyan region.
Our Ethics
As members of the Master Plumbers Association since 1994, we are bound by rules of honesty, integrity and excellent workmanship. Our reputation is our most valuable asset and we do all we can to ensure that our customers get the most efficient and professional leak locating and CCTV drain camera inspection service possible.
Our History
Our owner, Robert Edwards, started as a plumber in 1985, working in the NSW snowfields, where most of the water leaks he attended were caused by frozen water pipes. Back then, no one had electronic leak-detection equipment, and drain cameras and drain-locating equipment were not available. Water leaks and drainage pipes were found with pure plumbing knowledge, intuition and a lot of digging.
The most difficult water leak he located was at Perisher, where he had to dig through 1,500mm of snow and another 900mm of frozen soil to reach a leaking valve – during a blizzard!
Robert went on to start 6 Star Hot Water & Plumbing and has been operating plumbing businesses in the Canberra and Queanbeyan region since 1991. The biggest water leak he repaired in Canberra was at a set of units in Fadden in 2012, where the excess water bill was $15,000.00.
The second biggest was at the French Embassy in Yarralumla, where the excess was $8,000.00. Robert and the team have also found ingenious ways to locate plastic pipes. In 2014, at the Indian High Commission, the team found a water leak in a plastic pipe within 6 hours, covering an area of approximately 12,000 square metres. The only hole they dug was with a shovel directly over the leak.
Others had tried and failed to locate the leak for weeks with large excavation equipment.
Our Qualifications
We are licensed plumbers, drainers and gasfitters, with restricted electrical licences. We are licensed in both the ACT and NSW.
Our Equipment
We have the latest water leak detection and location equipment, including small cameras for probing walls and large drain cameras that can travel 50+m into drains, as well as gas leak testing equipment. We have small and large jackhammers, concrete saws, a mini excavator, trench compaction equipment and concreting gear.
Suburbs we Service
We provide leak locating, pipe inspections and repairs in the following areas:
Belconnen, Bungendore, Burra, Carwoola, Googong, Gungahlin, Jerrabomberra, Kambah, Murrumbateman, North Canberra, Queanbeyan, South Canberra, Sutton, Tharwa, Tuggeranong, Wamboin, Weston Creek, Woden, Williamsdale, and more.
Contact Us
Our office hours are 7am – 5pm Monday to Friday, with 24 hour – 7 day emergency water leak locating and repair services.
If you need emergency water leak detection, locating or repairs call 0448 844 911 now.
We can provide expert water leak advice over the phone to anyone who needs urgent help.
If it is not a water leak emergency or if you just want to make a general enquiry, please call us during office hours. We would be more than happy to provide all of the advice you need during normal working hours.
For expert help today, call Canberra Water Leak Detection & Locating Services now on 0448844911
Robert and Sally Edwards own and operate the following businesses under the ABN 71 318 357 743. Canberra Water Leak Locating & Detection Service, 6 Star Hot Water & Plumbing, Canberra Solar Hot Water Repairs, and Canberra Hot Water Repairs. We have specialists in all plumbing fields. We advertise multiple businesses this way to make it easier to find our specialised services online.
