Waterlink is able to carry out a range of pipe work services for commercial, local authority, Govt and light industrial customers.

We are skilled at working in a campus environment such as commercial estates, university campuses, hospitals and barracks.

All in a days work!

A typical job might involve being called in to detect a leak and replace a private water mains.

This could involve identifying both the leak and the mains which might well have been originally laid up to 100 years before.

Possibly due to the state of the old water mains, perhaps for health / water quality reasons or due to site expansion and the need to balance the load on the water mains due to low pressure on parts of the site we might recommend the replacement of the mains with higher capacity pipe.

The work would involve the excavation, replacement of the mains and then the reinstatement of the road or other surface.

All parts of the contract require high quality work:

Correct signage and excavation to protect the operatives and public during the course of the work.

The installation of the new water pipes due to the fact it will be carrying drinking water.

The backfilling and reinstatement of the surface to ensure that the new or repaired water pipe is protected.

For reinstatement we can call on our colleagues in mkw-reinstatement

Leak Detection

Identifying the fact of a leak and detecting it rapidly on a large commercial estate is part of our core expertise. We are often called in to conduct water audits, especially when water consumption can appear high.

If you have a leak, rather than dig up the whole pipe, or large parts of it we can identify the location of the leak using both traditional and the latest techniques.

The traditional methods include the use of a rod with an earpiece.

The operator simply places the rod tight against the ground and uses the earpiece to listen - its surprisingly effective!

Where the low tech, traditional approach is not sufficient we have access to the latest technology.

Leak noise correlator

This is an electronic device that is used to send a single through your leaking pipe, we then have a detector that is used to identify almost exactly where the pipe runs undergound and then the location of the leak.

We are able to excavate at the correct location in order to repair the leak, thus saving us time and of course you money.