Many other companies within our industry believe that tunneling from the outside of the house is an option for repair of a fresh water leak. In-House Plumbing Company disagrees with these companies due to major safety and proper repair of the pipe concerns. We believe that tunneling under a concrete slab when the dirt is very wet and unstable is extremely dangerous for the workers doing the tunneling.

Also, sometimes in order to properly repair a fresh water leak under a concrete slab in copper pipe the pipe must be silver soldered which is a process requiring a torch. In order to get the pipe hot enough to silver soldier it, there has to be a ton of fresh oxygen inside and around the repair area. Unfortunately a tunnel no matter how long it is restricts the proper flow of air into and out of the tunnel. Many people believe that they can blow or suck air in and out of a tunnel, and although this might be correct in some cases, every situation is different and it is bad enough to have to repair a pipe one time, it would certainly not be fun to expose and repair it a second time because the lack of oxygen did not allow for the pipe to be repaired properly so the leak started again shortly down the road.