I have a strange problem. At a small retirement community, at one 4 unit building, the water district guy tells me that his reader is saying "Potential Leak Detected". Neither of us could find anything leaking, inc. faucets, toilets, outside spigots, tub/showers, boiler, or attic (there are copper runs in attic w/ pex coming off of it here and there). He supposedly ran some numbers and somehow determined that the leak was around 9 gph (Yikes!). We probed and listened and couldn't hear anything. Checked everything again (this is all the next day- yesterday, and he's saying that the leak still exists). Today I get a call and he says, "Whatever you did must have fixed it because it's not leaking anymore". I told him I didn't do anything which is true - I did absolutely nothing. Now he's saying, "Well, you must have because it's not leaking now". I'm at a loss, but starting to lean towards his radio freq. reader is giving him a false "Potential Leak" warnings. Is this possible? I finally got a look at the actual meter today and see that we should be able to confirm any suspected leak there. If he calls and says "It's leaking right now", I can ask each of the 4 tenants to not use any water for 1 hour, then compare before and after readings right on the mechanical meter. It has a counter for cu. ft. then a large dial graduated in 0.1 cu. ft. increments, then a little blue spinner that moves even with a very small trickle of flow. Does this make sense? Any comments or suggestions? - esp. regarding if anyone has heard of the RF readers giving false leak warnings.
Thank you!
Thank you!
