Leaks in island homes can be hard to trace. In a home with original walls, a slab foundation and older plumbing, the signs often show up away from the source. The water bill creeps up, a floor feels warm in one spot, or paint lifts near the baseboard. In a condo or a shared building, a hidden leak doesn't stop at property lines, and the neighbor below can find out before you do.
The right response is a search that doesn't wreck anything. Detection equipment listens through slabs, reads temperature through walls and follows the lines, and in the right conditions it can often bring the search down to one area with little opening, or none. In homes this established, that matters. How to go about it is the licensed contractor's call, job by job. You see the finding, hear the options in plain English, and make the call yourself.
If the search finds nothing, in Coronado that's good news for you and for the neighbor below. A slab or wall leak is ruled out, and the high bill can be checked somewhere smaller. Either way you get a clear answer. It starts with one call, and the rest happens at your pace.
