Hi,
I am new here and was hoping to get some advice. I am building a home and right now it is in the stage of waiting for sheet rock so all the plumbing is exposed. We have encountered a leak somewhere and it has to be under the slab since the top out is not leaking. We have checked the supply line to the house and no leaks. Our plumber will be coming later this week but he already stated that it must be where the water enters the house. He doesn't seem to know too much about checking for leaks if it is under the slab.
Basically, my question is how do you check for leaks in the slab. My husband said if we could isolate it he would just cap it off and run the line overhead. The question is what equipment do you use? I wish we had the plumbing run overhead but the plumber kept insisting that we should run it in the ground because that is the normal practice and it would not be noisy.
By the way the house is in Texas.
Thanks,
madonnab
I am new here and was hoping to get some advice. I am building a home and right now it is in the stage of waiting for sheet rock so all the plumbing is exposed. We have encountered a leak somewhere and it has to be under the slab since the top out is not leaking. We have checked the supply line to the house and no leaks. Our plumber will be coming later this week but he already stated that it must be where the water enters the house. He doesn't seem to know too much about checking for leaks if it is under the slab.
Basically, my question is how do you check for leaks in the slab. My husband said if we could isolate it he would just cap it off and run the line overhead. The question is what equipment do you use? I wish we had the plumbing run overhead but the plumber kept insisting that we should run it in the ground because that is the normal practice and it would not be noisy.
By the way the house is in Texas.
Thanks,
madonnab