Hydrogen Tracer Gas · Underground Water Lines
Pays for itself in 5–7 jobs.
Keeps paying after that.
Hydro-Lok injects hydrogen tracer gas into the line and reads it straight through soil, asphalt, and concrete, so your own crew locates the leak on the same visit. Most shops recover the full cost of the unit within their first 5–7 locates — every job after that is revenue that used to go to a leak detection company.
The Problem
Every locate you refer out is a job you don't get paid for.
Right now, when a customer's underground line has a leak you can't find by ear or by guess, the job goes to a specialty leak detection company. They collect the locate fee. They meet your customer. And more often than not, they pick up the repair too.
You refer the leak out
A third-party detection company locates the leak, invoices the customer directly, and is first in line for the repair.
You locate it yourself
Same visit, same crew. You bill the locate, you're already on site for the repair, and the customer relationship stays yours.
Why It's Cost Effective
You're not adding a cost center. You're closing one.
Hydro-Lok's price point is built around a simple math problem: what a leak detection company currently charges you (indirectly, in lost jobs) versus what the unit costs once. For most plumbing shops, that break-even lands between the 5th and 7th self-performed locate — then every locate after that drops straight to the bottom line.
Recovering cost
Locate fees you now keep are applied against the one-time unit cost. No subscription, no per-job royalty.
Break-even window
Most shops fully recover the unit cost somewhere in this range, depending on local locate rates.
Pure margin
Every locate from here on is revenue that, before Hydro-Lok, would have gone to someone else's invoice.
How It Works
Three steps from "we're not sure where it's leaking" to a marked spot on the ground.
Isolate & inject
Shut down the section, purge the line, and inject the hydrogen/nitrogen tracer mix with the included regulator.
Walk the line
Sweep the probe along the pipe route above ground. The digital readout tracks H2 concentration in real time.
Mark the leak
Concentration spikes sharply within inches of the leak point. Mark it, dig it, fix it — same visit.
Revenue Calculator
Set your numbers, see your break-even.
Slide to match roughly how many underground leak locates your company refers out today, and what a detection company typically charges for one. See both your monthly revenue kept in-house and how many jobs it takes to pay off the unit.
Estimate for illustration only, based on the figures you set above and a unit cost placeholder. Excludes any follow-on repair revenue. Confirm current unit pricing with your H2Leak distributor.
