Strata Leak Detection in Vancouver, BC

Pre-1965 oil-tank-era homes on the west side, post-tensioned towers downtown, and some of BC's oldest buried services in Strathcona and Mount Pleasant. Each era brought its own leak patterns — piping materials, deck assemblies, envelope details — and a Vancouver strata file starts with that context: knowing what a building of its vintage tends to do is half the diagnostic head start.

For buried common property — site services, irrigation, parkade perimeter drainage — yes: glacial till uplands with deltaic sands toward False Creek and Fraser flats ground shapes where escaping water travels and whether it ever surfaces. Till and sand image well — 400 MHz reaches 2–3 m across most of the city; signal shortens in fill zones around False Creek and the port lands. That's factored into how we investigate below-grade strata losses here.

Province-wide pricing — no regional premium for Vancouver or anywhere in the Metro Vancouver. Single investigations start in the low-to-mid hundreds; larger properties and multi-system files are quoted by scope. The free phone consult (604-239-9934) produces a firm number in about five minutes. Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm PT.

By tracing the path, not guessing from geometry. Water travels along slabs, pipes, and assemblies before it shows — the unit below a stain is a suspect, not a conclusion. We investigate the plumbing stacks, fixture zones, and assemblies above with thermal, moisture mapping, and controlled testing until the source pins. The written determination is specific: this unit, this fixture or assembly, this failure.

That's a council decision shaped by the Strata Property Act, the strata's bylaws, and where the source lands (common property vs in-unit). What we contribute: a clean source determination that makes the cost conversation factual instead of political. Many councils commission the investigation as common expense, then allocate per the findings and their bylaws.