Thames Water on Reels

We get asked lots of questions about leaks. But, the question ‘Why don’t you stop them happening in the first place?’ is the trickiest to answer. In a nutshell, pipes are very fussy. They don’t like getting too hot or too cold, they don’t like being put under pressure when demand is high, and they don’t like it if the ground moves too much. It’s not possible to control the environment of every single pipe, every single day. But we can do more to prevent leaks, and find and fix them as quickly as