Leak Detection Guides & Advice
Practical guides from MCR Leak Detection: finding hidden water leaks, trace and access insurance, boiler pressure problems, and what Scottish homeowners, landlords and businesses need to know. New guides are added regularly.
Tenement Water Leaks: Who Pays for Repairs in Scotland?
In a Scottish tenement, who pays for a water leak depends on the pipe: private pipework is one owner’s repair, common pipes are shared under the deeds or the Tenement Management Scheme. Here is how the split works and how detection settles it.
Water Leak From the Flat Above: Your Rights in Scotland
When the flat above leaks into yours, Scottish tenement law decides whose repair it is: the upstairs owner’s own plumbing or a shared common pipe. Here is how to protect your flat, contact the right person and prove the source.
Slow Water Leaks and Insurance: What’s Covered and What’s Not
Slow leaks sit in insurance’s disputed territory: covered when genuinely hidden, refused when warnings went ignored. How the gradual damage exclusion works, where the line falls and how to keep a slow leak claimable.
Why Insurers Ask for a Leak Detection Report (and What’s in One)
A leak detection report is the independent evidence a water leak claim turns on. What a professional report contains, how it unlocks trace and access cover, why it speeds up settlements and what to check before commissioning one.
How to Make a Water Leak Insurance Claim (Step by Step)
A water leak claim is two jobs at once: fixing the leak and building the paper trail. The seven steps in order, the trace and access split explained, how to handle the loss adjuster and the refusal reasons to avoid.
Leaking Stopcock: Is It an Emergency and What Should You Do?
Most stopcock leaks start as a slow weep from the gland nut, and a quarter turn with a spanner cures many of them. How to tell that from a failing valve body, why you should never force a seized stopcock, and when it needs same-day attention.
Water Coming Through the Ceiling: Emergency Steps That Limit Damage
Water through the ceiling punishes hesitation. The first ten minutes step by step: stop the water, isolate electrics, deal safely with a bulging ceiling, trace the source above and gather the evidence your insurer will ask for.
Burst Water Pipe? What to Do in the First 10 Minutes
A burst pipe at mains pressure floods fast. The first 10 minutes decide the damage: stopcock off, taps open, electrics off, contain the water and photograph everything. Then work out whose pipe it is before anyone digs.
Frozen Pipes: How to Thaw Them Safely and Prevent a Burst
A frozen pipe does its damage as it thaws. Find the freeze, open the nearest tap, thaw gently with a hairdryer or warm towels, and inspect the whole run for splits, because the ice often plugs the crack it made.
Central Heating Pipe Leaking Under the Floor: Signs and What to Do
A heating pipe leaking under the floor gives itself away in warm patches, ceiling stains and a falling boiler gauge. What changes between timber and solid Scottish floors, and how the leak gets pinpointed without lifting the lot.
Boiler Pressure Dropping Overnight: What It Usually Means
An overnight pressure drop has three usual causes: harmless cooling contraction, a flat expansion vessel, or a small hidden leak. The overnight gauge test separates them in three or four mornings, before anyone lifts a floor.
How to Find a Leak in a Central Heating System
A sealed heating system that keeps losing pressure is leaking somewhere. Work through radiators, boiler and visible pipework first, then learn how thermal imaging and tracer gas find the hidden runs without wrecking your floors.