JJ Lourens Plumbers Cape Town
Plumber in Cape Town

JJ Lourens Plumbers Cape Town has more than 20 years’ experience in the plumbing industry.
JJ Lourens Plumbers is a registered member of IOPSA, SESSA and our plumbers are qualified and certified by Eskom to do solar geyser installations.
We are insurance approved by three of the major banks (Absa, Nedbank, Standard Bank) as well as Santam, Outsurance, Momentum Short Term Insurance and SA Homeloans.
Our qualified, experience plumbers can assist you with virtually any plumbing problem such as blocked drains, leaking/burst pipes, repairs and installation to geyser and solar geysers as well as general plumbing maintenance.

Our plumbers are experts when it comes to insurance geyser claims and can quickly and efficiently repair or replace a burst/ damaged geysers to SANS (South African National Standards) 10254 standards. Our professional plumbers will treat your home with the utmost care and we strive to always work as clean as humanly possible. At JJ Lourens Plumbing Cape Town we deliver quality workmanship at a reasonable price. Our plumbers are also qualified to work on solar geysers and heat pumps and our workmanship carries a 100% guarantee. Our Cape Town based leak detection teams, not only have the latest in leak detection equipment, but also many years of plumbing experience. This means that we are able to quickly and accurately identify the source of leaking pipes, fittings, sanitary ware or geyser components. It is vital that the source of the leak is found, as the evidence of a leak and the source of the leak are often not found in the same location. Our leak detectors are trained to quickly and accurately identify the source of leaking water pipes and fittings. A leaking pipe in a cavity wall, for example, could present with mould or wet spots at the bottom of a wall, whereas the source of the leak is actually near the ceiling. For example: if there was a leak on a hot water pipe concealed in a brick wall, our thermal imaging unit will show the general area where the surface temperature of the wall was higher due to the heat the leaking pipe is generating. The same would be true for leaks on a cold water line since the water is generally colder than the surrounding surface. Through using highly sensitive microphones in the audio test equipment we are able to hear the sound that the leak makes and use that to pinpoint the leak. Some leaks are too deep in the ground or are too slow for effective thermal/audio testing. In those instances we inject a non-toxic gas into the pipes which does not dissolve in water. These gasses, like helium and hydrogen, being lighter than air, will escape from the leaking area and spread throughout the ground and rise to the surface. Our highly sensitive gas detection device is then able to pick up the 'scent' and identify the approximate location of the leak. Most often used for leaking waste pipes and porous shower floors, dye test are used to identify leaks by sealing off an area that is suspected for leaking and adding a highly visible dye to the water. If there is a leak in the area the dye will be sucked into to the leak, revealing its location. When fixing leaking pipes we often have to expose the area where the leak has been identified by means of leak detection. This unfortunaly means that we have to often break open walls, shower floors, conctrete floor or tiles in order to fix the leak. We strongly recommend that when we have fixed the leaking pipe you leave it for three days to make sure that the leak has been properly fixed before getting in a contractor in to plaster, tile, paint etc. Please note that generally speaking when fixing leaking pipes we do not repair, plaster, paint the areas that needed to be exposed to fix the leak. It is also essential that the client be aware that in most cases matching of existing tiles, flooring and cupboard finishes are impossible because the ranges and styles change frequently.