, your Residential and Commercial Restoration and Cleaning Service Company, shares some possible common warning signs of water leaks in homes and businesses, before we proceed to water leak detection and thermal imaging.

Warning Sign No. 1: Increasing Water Bill

Have your water bills hiked up lately? If so, you probably have a leak somewhere in your home or place. To make sure the spiking isn’t caused by a seasonal change, compare your latest water bills to those from the same month last year.

Warning Sign No. 2: Water Meter Repeatedly Ticking

Is your water meter continuously running despite the fact that you’re not using water inside or outside your home? This is another warning sign that you could have a leak.

Warning Sign No. 3: Presence of Mold & Mildew

Leaks oftentimes cause damp spots on floors, walls, and/or ceilings. These damp spots can cause mold to develop and the nasty odor that comes with it. If you discover that you have a musty smell around the home, regardless of how frequent you clean, you may have a leaking pipe.

Warning Sign No. 4: Foundation Cracks

Over time, cracks can appear on various places in your home. However, if you start to notice foundation cracks suddenly developing, you could have a leak for sure. The water that continually and regularly seeps out of your pipes can weaken a home’s structural parts and components, which can give rise to cracks in the foundation, walls, and other possible areas.

Warning Sign No. 5: Presence of Wet Spots

Visually and clearly inspect the area near sinks, tubs, and toilets. Have you seen wet spots? Or is the floor around the corner plumbing features discolored? If so, take it as a red flag that you could have a leaking pipe.

What is Thermal Imaging?

Basically, thermal imaging is the process of viewing and recording actual surface temperatures, signatures, and anomalies distinctly observed at surfaces like walls, ceilings, floors, pipes, and ducts, among others.

Service Master by PWF has technicians who are up to date on all advances in the field and use only the most reliable and trusted methods for maximum extraction of moisture.

With non-invasive methods such as thermal imaging, we are able to find hidden moisture without further damaging the structure. If needed, we’ll go in with penetrative instruments, simply to make sure that we get your home or office thoroughly dried and secure again.

Thermography or thermal imaging measures surface temperatures by utilizing infrared video and still cameras. These mentioned tools see the light that is in the heat spectrum. Images appearing on the video or film record the temperature variations of the building’s skin, ranging from white for warm regions to black for cooler areas. The resulting images help and assist the auditor to determine whether insulation is badly needed.

A thermographic inspection can be done both on the interior or exterior survey perspective. The energy auditor decides which procedure would yield the best results under certain weather conditions. Interior scans are considered more common since warm air escaping from a building does not always move through the walls in a straight line.

Thermal imaging offers several benefits both for residential and businesses, such as:

· an early fault condition detection – an easier, faster, reliable and safer method

· inspection, over time, of equipment under the same running conditions, permitting thermal anomalies to be easily detected

· a non-contact and non-invasive inspection technique

· can inspect hard-to-do and tricky-to-access live electrical equipment

· less maintenance and repair costs and expenses

· longer equipment and machine lifetime-use

Time is of the essence in the event of a pipe bursting, a sink overflowing, or a toilet backing up. In order to reduce costs and contain the damage,  is ready to respond in a matter of minutes, and we are on hand to provide.

To learn more about how we can help you with your water damage problem, contact us today at (866) 599-0871 or visit our website at https://www.servicemasterbypwf.com/contact-us/. We are available for emergency water damage cleaning or any fire damage, mold damage, and storm damage restoration in residential and commercial properties in Clay, Duval, St. John, and Pinellas Counties.

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