LeakTronics is the leader in electronic leak detection equipment manufacturing and professional training. Online, LeakTronics offers complete training programs for both swimming pool and plumbing leak detection, and every complete course package comes with the equipment necessary to perform the work. Enrollment is available year round and LeakTronics customer service is a simple telephone call away to help with any questions about the training, or about performing the work. This is how starting a professional leak detection business begins.


Being able to run a successful leak detection business begins with an education in how to perform leak detections, as well as understanding the best practices in customer relations, writing and submitting paperwork and understanding what makes pools leak. All of this is taught in the online training course from LeakTronics with more than three and a half hours of video content, case studies and a complete explanation of how to use each piece of gear to ensure that any and all leaks in the pool environment are found.


The LeakTronics Pro Complete leak detection kit, which comes as part of the complete training package, includes underwater microphones to listen for the sounds leaks make. With a pool filled and equipment off, the highly sensitive microphones detect the sounds of leaks from feet away, and increase in the level of sound as the mic gets closer to the leak. Listening in skimmers, at main drains and structural cracks, return fittings and tile lines lets the technician hear where water is leaving the pool through a crack, crevasse or even a pinhole in a pipe.


The Pro Complete Leak Detection Kit also includes a Pressure Rig for pressure testing plumbing lines and a deck plate and soil probe for listening under concrete and solid surfaces as well as through grass and soil, landscaping and aggregate. Identifying where a leak is with accuracy reduces the time spent digging to fix leaks, and keeps leak detections in house for repair technicians that would otherwise have to rely on another company to handle their personal customer’s needs. Proper leak detections fetch upwards of $400 to $500 or more and can be performed in under and hour, depending on added water features, attached spas, waterfalls or other equipment that also needs to be tested for leaks. Professional leak detection technicians make a full time salary often in just a few days of work a week, and the need is always there. For Real Estate, it’s just about a requirement to test a pool for leaks before the sale of a home and that market is also wide open.


For plumbers, the Plumbers Leak Detection Kit comes with equipment for listening throughout a home, starting at the meter to the house and listing around the entire property. The online training course gives detailed instruction on how to walk a property, both outside and inside of a house, and to test everywhere that water may be leaking. The video content walks viewers through entire property leak detections using all of the equipment in the leak detection kit and uses case studies to show how a job was accepted, performed and how paperwork was properly submitted to the client to get the technician paid for their work.