Your water bill is the first clue most McHenry homeowners notice. If it jumps 20 percent with no change in usage, water is going somewhere you can't see, often into the clay and glacial deposit soils under your foundation. A stained or damaged ceiling below an upstairs shower is another red flag. So is mold or mildew growth in a spot that never used to smell damp. We've traced slab leaks in Crystal Lake and Mundelein homes back to a warm patch on the basement floor.
Toilet leaks waste more water than most people realize, sometimes 200 gallons a day from a worn flapper valve. Internal corrosion inside a tank past its 10th year can turn a slow drip into a full failure with little warning. If our inspection turns up a fitting that's already split, our leaking pipe repair team handles the fix the same visit, matched to whatever pipe material is already in your walls.
Root intrusion into sewer laterals and freeze-thaw cycles that shift buried lines create the kind of slow leak our camera catches long before a wet yard does. A sump pump running nonstop points to the same stress on your plumbing system. Sediment buildup in a tank or the hard water found throughout McHenry County can accelerate it all.
