Slab Leak Detection & Repair — Kansas City, MO
When something goes wrong with your slab leak detection & repair in Kansas City, you need someone who can be there fast. Calls go to a working tech, not a call center. You'll get a real estimate over the phone when we can give one.
Notes on Kansas City housing stock
Most weeks we run 12–18 calls inside Kansas City alone. Different houses, similar fixes — we've seen yours before.
If you're calling from a property management company, we have separate scheduling and billing for that.
One we ran last year
A Kansas City customer in their 1960s home had been chasing a warm spot in the master bedroom carpet, plus a $140 jump in the water bill for weeks before calling. Pinhole leak in the hot-water copper line under the slab was the actual cause. We re-routed the line overhead through the attic and abandoned the slab line; everything stable since. About $1334 all in.
What this service includes
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.
Typical investment
For slab leak detection & repair jobs in the Kansas City area:
- Slab leak detection (acoustic + infrared): $260 – $440
- Re-route a single line overhead: $1,290 – $2,575
- Pinhole repair in slab (jackhammer): $1,655 – $3,130
- Full re-pipe of slab home (PEX overhead): $7,820 – $16,560