Water Leak Repair in Alvalade

About our service in Alvalade

The most frequent call from this neighbourhood is not a dramatic burst. It is a bathroom or kitchen wall that has started to darken, usually on the side facing the rear courtyard, where the original vertical pipe runs. Sixty or seventy years of use narrows steel pipe and thins it, and the first failure is generally a weep rather than a jet. That slow escape can carry on for months behind tiles, and the plaster on the far side of the wall gives it away long before anything drips. Before we open anything, we like to establish that water really is escaping. Shut every tap, switch the washing machine off at the wall and read the meter, then read it again a while later with nothing used in between. If the figure has moved, the loss is inside the flat. If it has not, the mark on the wall is telling a different story, and we say so: sometimes the readings point to condensation in a poorly ventilated bathroom rather than a leak, and that calls for a moisture survey, not a plumber with a chisel. We would rather tell you that than sell you a repair. When it is a leak, the location decides the work. A weeping valve under a sink is a small job; a corroded run inside a wall means opening a chase, repairing or renewing the section, and making good. That is why the quote varies with the pipe material, the access and how much has to be opened, and why we look before we price. We travel out across Alvalade Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm, and we are closed on Sunday; when the day is full and the earliest slot is tomorrow morning, we tell you that straight away. If you can, shut the mains valve in the meantime — in these flats it is normally in the kitchen cupboard under the sink, or in the meter niche by the front door.

Leak work we carry out in Alvalade:

Services Included

• Detection of slow leaks behind tiles and inside wall chases
• Repair of aged steel supply pipes and failed joints
• Renewal of weeping taps, angle valves and hoses
• Cistern repairs where the water will not shut off
• Waterproofing of bathrooms, laundry areas and shower trays

Areas We Serve

We cover the Bairro de Alvalade and the streets around it: Avenida da Igreja, Roma, Campo Grande and São João de Brito, including flats that back onto the old logradouros.

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