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Water Leak Repair

Close the main and stop the loss first, since a supply leak runs at full pressure day and night whether or not anyone can see where it goes.

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What a pro does

Finding the leak is the job; fixing it is usually the short part. The plumber starts at the meter, confirms water is leaving the system, then closes the house valve to split the problem into two halves. Still moving means the service line between the meter and the house. Stopped means it's inside. Sandy soil through the Midlands and the coastal plain makes an underground leak easy to miss, because the water sinks straight down and never makes a puddle, so it hides behind a rising bill for months. Inside, acoustic listening and pressure isolation narrow it down before anything gets opened. The usual finds are ordinary: a toilet flapper passing water quietly, a split hose bib that only leaks with the valve open, an irrigation zone valve that never fully closes, a pinhole in copper inside a wall. Irrigation deserves special attention in this state, since a lot of homes run it on the same meter and a leaking zone can move a startling volume without anyone seeing a drop of it.

Frequently asked questions

Porous ground swallows it. In sandy soil the water moves down rather than out, so nothing surfaces and the grass over the line is often no greener than the rest. The bill is usually the first evidence, followed by a drop in pressure at the house once the leak is large enough.
It runs off the same supply, so a leak there shows up on the same meter and looks exactly like a house leak until someone isolates it. A plumber checks the irrigation shutoff and the backflow device early for that reason, particularly on a home where the system has been sitting unused.
That depends on your utility. Some water systems in South Carolina have a leak adjustment policy that applies once a repair is documented and some do not, so ask your provider before the work is done and keep the paperwork from the repair either way.
It is one of the largest quiet losses in a house. A flapper that seats poorly can pass water continuously without any sound in the bowl, and on a well it also means the pump runs more than it should. It is a small repair, and finding it usually pays for itself quickly.

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