Slab Leak Detection in Gilbert, Same-Day on Most Jobs
Wet floors with no visible source. A water bill that keeps climbing. Running water you can't find. Those are slab leak signs. We find it without tearing up your floor first.
About a quarter of Gilbert's houses went up in the 1990s and roughly one in ten in the 1980s. Those are the Gilbert slabs with copper under them old enough to have worn thin in one spot.
Which Gilbert Homes Get Slab Leaks
Gilbert's slab-leak exposure is concentrated rather than spread out. Under 4 percent of the town's houses were standing before 1980, and the Heritage District downtown is the only significant pre-1970s core in it. Everything else sits on slabs poured from the 1980s forward, with about 9.5 percent from that decade and 26.8 percent from the 1990s, which is copper in the ground for 27 to 46 years. The water moving through it is what the town reports at 8 to 10 grains per gallon, blended from Salt River Project surface water, Central Arizona Project surface water and town wells, so hardness here is a band rather than a fixed figure. Seville, Agritopia and Power Ranch all belong to the post-1990 boom, and a repair under any of those slabs is permitted by Town of Gilbert Development Services, the town's own counter, not the county's.
The ground under Gilbert is caliche, decomposed granite, alluvial sediment and desert fill, and it is flat, with no hillside to send water anywhere. Water out of a leak under the slab has no downhill to take.
Wondering what the signs of a slab leak look like, or how we find one without tearing up your floor? Our slab leak detection page covers both, and it applies the same way in Gilbert.
Frequently Asked Questions
US 60 east is the usual way into Gilbert from our Phoenix office, about 25 to 35 minutes depending on when you call, with the 202 as the way around when the 60 backs up. Slab leak work is same-day service on most jobs, and locating the leak is the first visit's job.
In a specific slice of it, yes. About 9.5 percent of Gilbert's houses went up in the 1980s and 26.8 percent in the 1990s, which puts that copper in the ground for 27 to 46 years. Gilbert's water runs 8 to 10 grains, and the ground under the town is caliche, decomposed granite, alluvial sediment and desert fill. The 59.6 percent of Gilbert built in 2000 or later is a different conversation. The rest of it is not.