Leaking pipes are no quick-fix situation – they can cause untold havoc to your house foundations. If this is the dilemma you are unfortunately confronted with on the home front, you need to act sooner rather than later.
A small hole or tear in a pipe may not seem like it’s in need of urgent repair. However, a tiny leak can already start to cause concrete damage and soil erosion to the structure of your property. This can quickly escalate into a larger and more serious concern that can rock your house foundations.
Suffice to say, the ongoing repairs can be stressful, disruptive, and expensive.
How to Tell if your Foundations are Affected
Detecting stormwater build-up or inadequate drainage due to leaking pipes often takes time. The visible loosening or dilapidation of foundations caused by leaking pipes usually occurs after the worst of the damage is done.
Protection and inspection can hold the key to eliminating structural problems. After excessive rainfall, you should regularly inspect your property — top to bottom.
This includes checking for uneven floors, doors that dip or buckle, gradually slanting windows, ceiling “bubbling”, discolouration or other obvious signs of damage, and cracks in both the interior and exterior of walls.
How Do you End Up with a Leaking Pipe?
There are myriad potential causes of leaking pipes, including: invasive tree roots within or near the perimeter of your property; excessive rainfall or poor stormwater drainage; and older clay pipes that remain in the foundations of your house.
How to Fix the Problem Before it Starts
Prevention is better than cure. So, if any or all of these factors could affect the plumbing systems and structure of your property, you should act now to stem the flow. Stopping the problem before it wreaks havoc on your house foundations and finances is an astute step that all property owners should take.
What Should You Do with a Leaking Pipe?
In the event of a leaking pipe, you need smart, sustainable and affordable solutions, and quickly. You need to stem the flow of water from any burst internal or external pipes on your property – both for now and making sure that the pipes will stay fixed for the long term.
Good to Know for Repairs
You should also be advised that if the leaking pipe is located within the boundary of your house, the cost of fixing the problem falls to the homeowner. However, if the damaged or leaking pipe is outside the property’s boundaries, the restoration bill is the responsibility of your local council.
Repairing the Water Damage
If the leaking pipe has caused damage to the foundations or other structural parts of a building, this will need to be repaired separately as well. For an affordable and non-invasive approach to stabilising your foundations, turn to Resinject.
Resinject uses an innovative and certified resin, which is injected into the ground to stabilise and consolidate the surface beneath your structure — repairing any damage from the leaking water.
How We Can Help Repair and Restore
When you turn to Resinject for your structural repairs, you can rest easy in the knowledge that you have consulted Australia’s market leader for ground consolidation and foundation improvements in all environments.
Our mission to is to provide affordable, sustainable and value-adding restorations for your leaking pipes and plumbing-related issues affecting your house foundations.
Best of all, we are Australian-owned, and our product is manufactured to the highest Australian standards. Contact our helpful and professional team today to find out more.
