Cost guides
Emergency Leak Detection Cost: What Decides the Hours
Emergency leak detection costs the hourly rate multiplied by the hours the search takes. Emergency attendance starts from £220 an hour, with the exact rate…
Cost guides
What emergency leak detection and repair costs
In short
Leak work is charged hourly, with the rate stated before anyone attends, and these guides work through the totals that follow from it. Our published rates are kept separate from the wider range seen across the trade, and each guide explains how repair work is priced once the water is under control. The full list of rates sits on the pricing page. Read the worked totals alongside your own situation: how long the search may take depends on how much of the pipework can be seen, how many methods are needed and how easily the engineer can reach the likely area.
Published prices
Every price
- Emergency leak detection
- from£220an hour
Other rates, by the hour
- Standard leak detection
- £160an hour
- Mains and supply pipe leak detection
- £180an hour
- Heating and underfloor leak detection
- £200an hour
- Trace and access
- £200an hour
- Moisture mapping
- from£175an hour
- Tracer gas leak detection
- £160an hour
- Plus £80 per gas cylinder, only when gas is used.
No find, no fee waives the detection fee only when a live leak inside your own property cannot be located. The full rule
No call-out fee and no travel charge: the rate starts when work starts
No VAT is charged
A fixed hourly rate quoted before we attend and never exceeded
The guides below take these rates and apply them to realistic visits. Treat the totals as illustrations of how the arithmetic works, because the real number of hours depends on how much pipework can be seen, how many methods are needed and how easily the likely area can be reached.