I’ve had a burst pipe just two weeks ago. Stupid me forgot to isolate the outside tap, and then we got a hard overnight frost. A joint inside the kitchen burst open at 4:30am, and I heard something that sounded like an intruder (footsteps on a wooden floor, followed by the sound of my light sensor switches activating). I leaped from my bed and opened the door to the sound of an intruder alright. However it wasn’t the intruder I was expecting. I had the sound of a river coming from a ruptured 15mm pipe joint. I reckoned this was 2 minutes of leaking, but my kitchen and utility rooms were both turned into lakes. So I’ve been thinking about leak detection ever since! Flow measurement isn’t sufficient. It cannot tell the difference between filling the bathtub and a ruptured joint. Yet if you were to somehow spill the entire contents of that bathtub onto the floor, you’d have the same catastrophe as a burst pipe. So my idea is to have a normally open motorised valve at the main inlet to the house, controlled from a raspberry pi. I then have a series of flood detectors dotted about the house: One next to each fresh water pipe transit (these are cheap metallic contacts with a pull-up resistor which can be used to measure voltage relative to supply or ground). I then also place these detectors in the crawl spaces under the house. In theory that should detect catastrophic leaks very quickly (seconds, not minutes). It should also detect slow drips so long as the drip yields a puddle or saturation in a wooden floor.
Hi john i have a? I am looking at purchasing a pqwt-CL200 leak detector to find, outside swimming pool pipe leaks. I cant find, any reviews do they work?
So clear to avoid the damages of the house
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I’ve had a burst pipe just two weeks ago. Stupid me forgot to isolate the outside tap, and then we got a hard overnight frost. A joint inside the kitchen burst open at 4:30am, and I heard something that sounded like an intruder (footsteps on a wooden floor, followed by the sound of my light sensor switches activating). I leaped from my bed and opened the door to the sound of an intruder alright. However it wasn’t the intruder I was expecting. I had the sound of a river coming from a ruptured 15mm pipe joint. I reckoned this was 2 minutes of leaking, but my kitchen and utility rooms were both turned into lakes.
So I’ve been thinking about leak detection ever since! Flow measurement isn’t sufficient. It cannot tell the difference between filling the bathtub and a ruptured joint. Yet if you were to somehow spill the entire contents of that bathtub onto the floor, you’d have the same catastrophe as a burst pipe.
So my idea is to have a normally open motorised valve at the main inlet to the house, controlled from a raspberry pi. I then have a series of flood detectors dotted about the house: One next to each fresh water pipe transit (these are cheap metallic contacts with a pull-up resistor which can be used to measure voltage relative to supply or ground). I then also place these detectors in the crawl spaces under the house. In theory that should detect catastrophic leaks very quickly (seconds, not minutes). It should also detect slow drips so long as the drip yields a puddle or saturation in a wooden floor.
Hi john i have a? I am looking at purchasing a pqwt-CL200 leak detector to find, outside swimming pool pipe leaks. I cant find, any reviews do they work?
Too slow. Good info.
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lmao
If I were to buy a house, I would choose the most reputable builder. Not those crappy craftsmanship built houses.
You gotta pay top dollar for that though are you ready for that? People want quality houses for cheap that doesn’t exist 🤣
really stupid system