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Water Leak Repair

Shut the main and call if the meter keeps counting with every fixture off, because a pressurised leak doesn't pause overnight and doesn't stop while you're at work.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

The plumber's first move is to find out which side of the wall the water's escaping on. Closing the house valve and watching the meter splits an interior leak from one on the buried service line, and those lead to completely different days of work. A leak on a service line in New York is a cold-weather job in the worst sense, because the pipe is buried below a frost line that runs deep here, and reaching it in February means getting through frozen ground before any repair starts. That's why an unexplained bare or green patch in a snow-covered yard is such a useful sign, since escaping water warms the ground above it. Inside, the hunt is systematic. Branches get isolated one at a time and the meter watched after each, then listening gear narrows it down, and old junctions get particular attention. Houses here are full of places where copper was tied into galvanised steel decades ago without anything between the two metals, and those connections corrode from the inside until they weep. Repairs get made in matching material, and the pipe either side gets assessed rather than ignored.

Frequently asked questions

Water leaking from a buried pressurised line carries ground heat with it and warms the soil above, which melts snow from below in a patch that has no other reason to be bare. It's one of the clearest outdoor signs there is, and in this climate it often shows up before anything indoors does.
It can, but frozen ground makes reaching it slow work, and that's worth knowing in advance. Where a leak is small and contained, sometimes the sensible plan is to manage it and do the excavation properly once the frost is out. Where water is undermining a foundation, waiting isn't an option.
It's the shutoff on your service line near the street, under a small cap in the ground, and it's what gets used when the valve inside the house has failed or when the leak is between the two. Reaching it needs a long key, and in winter the cap is often under snow, so knowing where yours sits is genuinely useful.
Often, yes. Pinholes generally come from water chemistry or flow conditions acting on the pipe over years, so a run that's produced one has usually produced the conditions for more. Repairing the hole is straightforward, and the more useful conversation is about the rest of that run.

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