Water Damage Service
In-slab copper fails at the end of its life across Tempe's slab-on-grade homes — we coordinate leak detection, then dry and restore the flooring above it.
The first sign is rarely a puddle. It is a water bill that doubled with no explanation, a patch of tile that stays strangely warm underfoot, or the faint sound of running water when every faucet in the house is off. A slab leak is a break in a pressurized supply line buried inside the concrete slab your home sits on, and it can run for weeks before it ever surfaces.
By the time it does surface, the damage is already spreading. Water under a slab has nowhere to go but sideways and up — it wicks across the subfloor, lifts baseboards, delaminates wood flooring, and pushes moisture into the base of block walls. Left alone in Tempe's climate, that trapped moisture becomes a mold problem inside the 24 to 48 hour window the IICRC warns about.
We do this work every week across Tempe's slab-on-grade neighborhoods. We coordinate the leak detection to pinpoint the break, then handle what we do best — drying the structure to the core and restoring the flooring and walls the leak damaged. Call (866) 688-0301 and we will walk you through it.
We start by verifying it is actually a slab leak and not a roof, appliance, or drain problem. Working with a leak-detection specialist, we use pressure testing along with acoustic and thermal equipment to pinpoint the break under the slab — so the access point is precise and the concrete work stays as small as possible.
Once the leak is located, the line is isolated or the water is shut off at the main. Reaching an in-slab line means a controlled cut through the flooring and concrete at the marked spot. We protect the rest of the room and keep the opening only as large as the repair actually requires.
Water trapped under and around the slab has to come out before anything gets closed up. We extract standing water, then set air movers and dehumidifiers and, where needed, specialty mats and injection drying to pull moisture out of the concrete, subfloor, and the base of the walls. We take daily readings until it is dry to standard.
With the structure dry, we rebuild what the leak and the access work removed — tile, wood or laminate flooring, baseboards, and any drywall that had to come out. The goal is a room that looks like the leak never happened.
We photograph and log everything from the first inspection through the final moisture reading, and hand you an itemized scope your adjuster can read. Sudden slab-leak damage is often covered even when the pipe repair itself is treated separately.
Much of Tempe is slab-on-grade block construction, and a lot of homes built from the 1960s through the 1980s have copper supply lines run through or under that slab. Decades of Tempe's hard water — 16 to 21 grains per gallon — scale and corrode copper from the inside, and the expansive caliche soil under the Valley shifts with moisture and puts stress on the pipe. Put those together and a pinhole leak at the end of the line's life is not bad luck, it is the expected failure. If you own an older ranch home, it is worth reading the [signs of a slab leak in a 1960s Tempe ranch](/blog/signs-of-slab-leak-1960s-tempe-ranch/) before one catches you off guard.
Here is how the work splits up, because people are often unsure who does what. A plumber or leak-detection specialist finds and repairs the pipe. We handle the water damage around it — the extraction, the [structural drying](/structural-drying/), and the flooring and drywall restoration a slab leak leaves behind. We coordinate the detection so you are not managing two trades on your own, and we make sure the concrete and subfloor are genuinely dry before the finished floor goes back down. Skip that drying step and you seal moisture under new tile, which is how a routine [water damage restoration](/) turns into a mold job.
Every loss is different, so we give you an itemized estimate before work begins — never a number pulled from the air. These are the factors that move the price:
Classic tells are a water bill that jumped for no reason, a warm or damp patch on the floor, the sound of running water when everything is off, and a drop in pressure. None of those are proof on their own, which is why the first step is detection — pressure testing and acoustic or thermal equipment to confirm the leak is under the slab and pinpoint it before anyone cuts concrete.
We handle the water damage — extraction, drying the slab and structure, and restoring the flooring and walls. The pipe repair itself is done by a plumber or leak-detection specialist, and we coordinate that step so you are not juggling two companies in the middle of an emergency.
It varies by policy, but many cover the sudden, accidental water damage a slab leak causes — the extraction, drying, and floor restoration — even when the cost of accessing and repairing the pipe is handled separately. We document the loss thoroughly for your adjuster. There is a fuller breakdown in our guide to whether insurance covers a slab leak in Arizona.
Sometimes. If we reach it early, specialty drying can save hardwood and the subfloor beneath it. Tile that has to be cut for access usually needs replacement in that section, and we match it as closely as we can. The longer a slab leak runs, the more flooring is lost, so fast detection and drying is what protects your floor.
We dry your home to the core — walls, slabs, subfloors and attics — with a calculated drying plan and daily moisture readings, not guesswork.
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