Slab Leak Detection & Repair services in Albuquerque
Sometimes the call is genuinely an emergency. Sometimes it's a Monday morning fix. We'll be honest about which one yours is. We carry our own insurance, pull our own permits, and service everything we install. Same shop, all the way through.
The actual work
Slab leaks are pinhole leaks in copper plumbing lines that run inside or under a concrete slab foundation. Common in 1960s through 1980s slab-on-grade builds across the Sun Belt and parts of the Midwest.
Signs: warm or wet spots on the floor, unexplained jumps in the water bill, the sound of running water when nothing is on, mildew smell along baseboards. Hot-side leaks show up faster than cold-side because of the warm spot.
Detection runs $280–$480 standalone. We use acoustic listening equipment plus an infrared thermal camera. Once we've located it, you have two repair options.
Option A: re-route the failed line through the attic or crawl space, abandoning the line in the slab. Cost: $1,400–$2,800. Faster, no jackhammer, and future-proofs against the next pinhole on that line.
Slab Leak Detection & Repair in Albuquerque — what's typical here
Our techs know the Albuquerque area: housing stock, soil, water main configurations, the parts that usually fail first.
On bigger jobs we'll bring two techs. On simpler ones, just one — fewer hands, faster billing.
Recent service example
Got a call last month from a the west Albuquerque home — 1960s build. Symptom: a warm spot in the master bedroom carpet, plus a $140 jump in the water bill. Cause: pinhole leak in the hot-water copper line under the slab. Re-routed the line overhead through the attic and abandoned the slab line, all done in about two hours, billed flat-rate at $1100.
Typical investment
For slab leak detection & repair jobs in the Albuquerque area:
- Slab leak detection (acoustic + infrared): $280 – $480
- Re-route a single line overhead: $1,400 – $2,800
- Pinhole repair in slab (jackhammer): $1,800 – $3,400
- Full re-pipe of slab home (PEX overhead): $8,500 – $18,000
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