Effects of Slab Leaks To Your Home

Treating your home and property with utmost care is every home owner’s priority. A water leak often a slab leak should be dealt with extreme seriousness. There can be different causes of water leaks below your home's foundation. 

Where are these so-called “slab leaks” located? When do these water leaks occur? 

A water leak under the slab occurs literally underneath the concrete slab of your home where a maze of water lines are found. Sometimes crowded and shifting soil or clay below the concrete can put heavy amounts of pressure in the concrete itself and cause the slab to loosen and crack giving way to a leak eventually. 

More often than not, in the San Diego & Orange County areas, slab leaks and most other copper water line leaks are caused by a chemical reaction created between the copper pipe and the additives in our public water supply. This interaction causes copper pipe to literally erode from the inside. Small pits develop and as they grow they erode to the outside of the pipe, eventually creating a pin hole size leak which under pressure continues to grow. - See more at: http://leakstar.com/blog/effects-of-slab-leaks-to-your-home

12 Ways on How to Check for Slab Leaks

Slab leak detection is sometimes difficult however it would show you signs before you spend a fortune on slab leak repair Carlsbad. The key is to detect the issue in your home's slab foundation early. 

Here are 12 tips that would help you determine that you have a slab leak:

• Hot Water. If you feel that one area of your floor is warm, that means water is leaking from your slab. Slab leak detection is done sooner with hot water leaks because you can feel it.

• Hot Water Heater. If your hot water heater is working nonstop, there's a good chance that you have a leak.

• Water Damage Signs. Water from a leak will not go anywhere but up. It will look for a way to escape. Look out for moisture or mildew in your carpets, cracks in your tile floors, warping on your hard floor, or bubbles in your linoleum floors.

• Water Bill. Because the water is allowed to run 24/7, you would expect to see a spike in your water bill if your slab foundation is leaking, unless of course if you have house guests. Remember that even a pinhole-sized damage can leak over 10, 000 gallons of water in a month.

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