Electronic leak detection in South Florida
Independent membrane integrity testing that finds the breach itself, to the square inch, before close-out and before the first storm finds it for you.
Where the water gets in down here
A membrane fails at its interruptions: seams, penetrations, flashing transitions, terminations. In a wind-driven rain event, water does not need a hole you could see. It needs a path, and pressure will find it.
Electronic leak detection puts an electrical potential across the membrane and follows the current to the one place it can get through. It works on a roof that is already built, without flooding the structure, and it finds breaches far smaller than a visual inspection will ever pick up.
Which matters more here than most places. A breach that would take two years to show itself in a mild climate can be a claim after one season of driving rain.
What the test runs to
The guide covering electronic methods for locating breaches in a waterproofing membrane.
The practice for low-voltage electronic scanning specifically.
Our low-voltage scanning runs on the Detec IntegriScan, the only FM Approved electronic leak detection method. If an insurer or a specification asks for an FM Approved test, that is the one they mean.
The full package, including scope language you can paste into a specification, is on the specification page.
Low voltage or high voltage
Chosen by the condition of the roof on the day, not by what we happen to own.
Low voltage
A thin film of water on the membrane carries the signal. Suits a membrane over a conductive deck, and works on finished surfaces including under overburden in many cases.
High voltage
A probe sweeps the dry membrane and arcs at a breach. Suits roofs that cannot be wetted, and finds pinholes a water-based method can miss.
Tell us the membrane, the deck and whether there is overburden, and we will tell you which one the roof needs before anyone gets on a plane. The full comparison is on electronic testing versus flood testing.
We do not sell the repair we just found
Atlantic Testing Services is not a roofing contractor and does no remediation work. We perform non-destructive testing only.
On a close-out test that independence is the whole product. A report from a firm that also bids the repair is worth less to an owner, less to an insurer, and less to the contractor trying to prove the work was sound. Ours says what we found and stops there.
You get a marked roof plan locating every breach, photographs of each, and a re-test of the repairs.
Tell us about the roof
Membrane, deck, roughly how big, where it is, and what stage the job is at. If electronic testing is not the right tool for it, we will tell you that instead.