Case files: how a leak gets traced
Invented examples, not real customers or jobs. Each one follows a typical Fullerton house from the first clue to the cause, so you can watch the process of elimination at work.
Every example here is illustrative, built from common situations. None is a real job, customer or address.
- Hypothetical: the warm hallway floor
This is an invented example, not a real job or customer. It shows how a warm floor and a higher bill can be traced to a hot water line under a slab.
- Hypothetical: the bill that doubled with a dry house
An invented example, not a real customer or job. It shows how valve checks moved the search from the house to the sprinkler system.
- Hypothetical: the overnight meter creep
This is an invented example, not a real household. It shows why toilets should be ruled out before paying for leak detection.
- Hypothetical: the stain under the upstairs shower
An invented example, not a real home or job. It walks through separating a pressurized supply leak from a leak that only happens when the shower is used.
- Hypothetical: low pressure and a leaking service line
This is an invented example, not a real property. It shows how weak pressure and an outdoor leak together pointed to an aging service line.
- Hypothetical: the third pinhole leak
An invented example, not a real customer. It follows an owner deciding what to do after repeated leaks in old copper pipe.