Can you inspect while our business remains open?

Often the first steps—record review, visual inspection, and meter observation—can happen with normal operations. Any isolation or shutdown is planned with the facility contact around tenants, guests, food service, and critical equipment.

What records should a Midland facility manager gather?

Recent bills, interval or submeter data, operating schedules, drawings, valve locations, and known equipment cycles help distinguish normal demand from water loss.

Does a high commercial bill prove a buried pipe leak?

No. Toilets, irrigation, cooling systems, softeners, process equipment, and billing or meter changes can also affect usage. Zone-by-zone evidence should come before excavation.

Will we receive documentation after an inspection?

A useful scope includes the meter pattern, systems checked, test conditions, observed evidence, likely source, remaining uncertainty, and repair or follow-up options.

Commercial Plumbing Leak Detection in Midland, TX

Find the pattern first

A busy facility needs more than a single meter reading

The EPA's WaterSense guidance recommends tracking meters and submeters, investigating usage spikes, and looking for leaks in cooling towers, boiler systems, restrooms, and irrigation. For Midland facilities, a clean comparison is often the lowest-occupancy period against a normal operating period. We also note cleaning shifts, process water, and outdoor watering so ordinary demand is not called a leak.

Hotels and multifamily

Room fixtures, laundry, water heaters, and irrigation can create overlapping signals. Submeter and valve maps reduce guesswork.

Restaurants and retail

Restrooms, kitchen equipment, ice makers, and hidden supply runs need different isolation windows to avoid interrupting service.

A facility-friendly investigation sequence

Baseline

Confirm the bill and meter trend against occupancy, schedules, irrigation, and process use.

Zone map

Locate valves and submeters; identify which systems can be isolated without stopping critical operations.

Targeted test

Use visual, acoustic, moisture, or pressure checks matched to the suspected line or room.

Decision record

Summarize findings, uncertainty, repair access, and a practical schedule for the facilities team.

When overnight flow persists

If an office shows steady overnight flow with the irrigation timer off, check equipment such as the cooling-tower make-up valve. A valve that does not close fully can mimic a buried domestic main leak; isolate the zone before excavation is proposed.

A useful handoff

Facility managers should receive the meter or submeter evidence, tested zones, observed conditions, likely source, recommended next test or repair, and any operational constraints.

Best-practice reference

EPA WaterSense guidance for facilities recommends meter/submeter tracking, leak alerts, and routine inspection of water-using equipment.

Common questions

Commercial leak planning questions

Start with your meter data and operating schedule.

Speak with us about the building, the usage change, and a practical inspection window for your team.

Call (432) 263-5094