Leak Detection & Pipe Repair in Calgary and the Foothills

Finding hidden leaks in Okotoks and Foothills homes

The leak you can see is rarely the expensive one. The expensive leak is the one that has been quietly soaking the subfloor under a kitchen island for two years, or the slab leak that lifted a corner of basement tile, or the pinhole in a copper line behind drywall that only shows up as a faint stain. Right On! Plumbing & Heating finds those leaks for Okotoks homeowners using pressure isolation, acoustic listening, moisture meters, and a structured process that does not involve cutting open walls until we know exactly where to cut.

The leaks we get called for in this region

Okotoks and the Foothills have a few patterns we see again and again. Homes built between 1985 and 1997 often have aging Poly B that develops pinhole splits at the crimp fittings, especially in laundry rooms and on second floors. Copper supply lines in older Cimarron and Westmount homes can pinhole from chloramine and hard-water attack. Slab leaks show up on heated floors and basement slabs after twenty years. Outside the building envelope, frozen and split hose bibs are the most common spring discovery, along with cracked irrigation backflow assemblies that were not blown out in the fall.

How we actually locate a leak

Step one is always a static pressure test to confirm the system is losing water, and to separate the hot side from the cold side and the supply from the drain side. From there we isolate zones, listen acoustically at fixtures and walls, scan with moisture meters and thermal where useful, and confirm with a small inspection cut only after we are confident. That keeps drywall repair to a minimum and gets you a real answer the first visit.

Once located, most leaks get repaired the same day. PEX repairs go fast. Copper repairs take longer but are clean. Poly B sections we generally recommend replacing rather than patching, because every patch is one more failure point in a system that is already on borrowed time. See Poly B replacement for the bigger picture.

Signs you have a leak you can not see

Watch for an unexplained jump in your Okotoks water bill, the sound of running water when nothing is on, warm spots on a basement floor, musty smells in a finished space, paint that bubbles or stains on a ceiling, or a water meter dial that moves while every fixture is off. Any one of those is worth a same-day call.