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Water Leak Repair

Close the main valve and call once you can confirm the meter is still moving with the house shut down, since a supply leak runs continuously whether anyone is home or not.

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What a pro does

Leak work is detective work before it's pipe work. The plumber closes the house valve and watches the meter, which separates a leak inside from one on the service line between the curb stop and the wall. That split decides who does what next. Service lines in older Pennsylvania towns are a mixed bag, and lead is part of the picture. Cities including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Harrisburg have run replacement programmes for lead services for years, and a leaking old service is often the moment a replacement makes sense rather than a patch. Galvanised service lines fail the same way galvanised does everywhere, closing up with rust from the inside until pressure drops, then splitting. Inside the house the hunt is acoustic and methodical. Isolating branches one at a time, listening at fittings, checking the places old work concentrated, especially where copper was joined to older steel without a dielectric fitting between them. Repairs get made in the material that suits what's there, and the section either side gets a proper look, because a pinhole in old pipe is rarely the only one forming.

Frequently asked questions

Turn off every fixture, including anything automatic like an ice maker, then look at the low-flow indicator on the meter. If it's still turning after a quiet hour, water is going somewhere. It's the cheapest test there is and it tells a plumber a great deal before arriving.
It's the shutoff valve on your service line out near the pavement, usually under a small metal cover, and it separates the utility's side from yours. It's the valve used when the one in the basement has failed, and it takes a long key to reach rather than a hand on a handle.
It often becomes the moment to replace rather than repair, and several Pennsylvania cities run programmes that deal with lead services on a set schedule or share the work. Your water authority can tell you what your address is recorded as and what help exists before you commit to a repair.
That pattern usually points upstream at the service line or the main house line rather than at any fixture. Old galvanised closing up with rust does it slowly over years, and a leak between the street and the house does it faster. Either way the test starts at the meter, not at the tap that bothers you.

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