Leak Detection and Slab Leak Repair in Las Vegas

Acoustically and thermally, before anything is opened. A pressurised line losing water under a slab makes a sound and leaves a warm track, and both can be located from above to within a small area. That is the whole point of detection as a separate step: the difference between opening one square of floor and opening a room is knowing where the leak is before the first cut.

Homes built from the 1960s to the 1990s often ran copper in or under the slab, and valley water at about 17 grains per gallon works on it from the inside while decades of ground movement work on it from the outside. Eventually a pinhole opens. A first pinhole is bad luck; a second or third in the same house is the run telling you it is thinning everywhere, which is when a reroute beats another spot repair.

Yes, on the repair itself. The Las Vegas Valley Water District reimburses qualified homeowners up to 50 percent of the cost to repair a leak, to a $2,000 cap, once the work is done and the paid invoice goes in. It pays against the repair rather than the diagnosis, it is single-family owners only, the invoice has to be at least $200, and it is one reimbursement per rolling 365 days.

It depends on what the rest of the pipe is doing. A single failure on otherwise sound line is a spot repair through the slab. Where the same run has already leaked once, or the pipe is old copper in high mineral water, rerouting that line overhead takes it out of the slab permanently and stops you paying for the same diagnosis again. We tell you which situation the camera and the pressure test actually show.

The usual signs are a warm patch of floor, the sound of running water with everything off, an unexplained jump in the water bill, or a meter that turns when nothing is on. Valley homes are slab on grade, so a failed supply line under the floor gives you those symptoms rather than a visible drip. We locate it acoustically before opening anything.

Yes. Monkey Wrench Contractors LLC holds Nevada State Contractors Board license 0092999 and trades as Monkey Wrench Plumbing. We are a BBB accredited business with an A plus rating, and every technician is background checked. About thirty minutes before your appointment you get a text with the assigned technician's photo, name, license number and live ETA.

No. The inspection is free and you get a flat-rate price before any work begins, so the number you approve is the number you pay. If the scope changes once something is opened up, we stop and re-quote rather than adding to the invoice at the end.