Arrive prepared to efficiently serve your residential, commercial, or industrial plumbing client. We have carefully crafted the tools for you to detect leaks, inspect pipes, check sewer systems, clean out drains, and generate smoke for testing. Try our:

• Bright Dyes® Leak Detective Kits
• Bright Dyes® Tracer Dyes
• AquaMole custom made jetting nozzles
• Turbo-Fog® Smoke Generators

BRIGHT DYES PLUMBING LEAK DETECTION

Dye testing is a relatively low cost, non-invasive method for testing all types of sewer systems. Dye testing provides valuable information about the present performance, flow, and connections within the system. Bright Dyes® Dye Testing can be used where there is water, whether in the toilet or in the ocean.

Use Bright Dyes® in the plumbing industry to test for water leaks and incorrect connections near and in residential and commercial properties. Confirm toilets, pipes, and septic tanks are performing properly. Effortlessly determine if your client’s drain is connected to a sanitary sewer or a combined sewer with Bright Dyes® tracer dyes.

How to Use Bright Dyes® Plumbing Leak Detection Dye

• Determine the amount of water you will introduce the dye to. Check out our resources if you need help calculating.
• Determine the color of the water and background of water. If the area is surrounded with algae, or heavy green undertones, select our FWT Red or Fluorescent Orange. Otherwise, try our FLT Yellow/Green.
• Introduce the dye where the water is flowing to where a leak may be.
• Trace leak using visual detection, or with a UV light.

Bright Dyes® Plumbing Leak Detection Procedure:

• Determine capacity of the septic system. I.e. if the building has 3 bedrooms, the septic system should support 500 gallons.
• Determine the amount of pipe dye required to color that amount of water.
• Determine the water flow of the building by using a gallon jug and timing how long it takes to fill that gallon jug. Calculate how long to leave the water on to reach that capacity. I.e. if the water in the building flows at 1 gallon per minute and you need 500 gallons, you would run the water for 500 minutes.
• Flush the required amount of dye tablets down the toilet and run the water in the house to reach “capacity” (see Example below). If the dye does not appear on the ground above the leach field by the time you turn off the water, then the septic system has passed.
  • Example:
    • A residential home that has 7 bedrooms and the water flows out of the tap at 1.89 gallons per minute would typically have an 1,100-gallon septic system.
    • To color 1,100 gallons of water to 1PPM, approximately 20 tablets are required.
    • Determine how long to run the water by dividing the amount of water required by the rate of flow. i.e. 1,100 / 1.89 = 582 minutes
    • Flush 20 plumbing leak detection dye tablets down the toilet and run the water at 1.89 gallons per minute for 582 minutes. If the pipe dye appears above ground around the leach field, then the septic system has failed. If the does not appear, then the septic system has passed the dye portion of the test.

Detect and Diagnose a Toilet Leak with Bright Dyes®

Toilets use about 27% of all the water used in an average home. And water leaks account for over 10% of all water use in the average home. And what is the #1 culprit as the source of these leaks? The home toilet. Often, water flows through the toilet with no noticeable sound, which is why these leaks often go unnoticed. Listed below is a simple method to check your home toilets for leaks:

• Remove the toilet tank lid.
• Drop a dye tablet into the tank at least 15 minutes after the last flush.
• Dye tablets (Toilet Leak Detective Kits) are available from Bright Dyes®. They may also be available through your local water provider.
• Put the lid back on and do not flush the toilet.
• Wait at least 10-15 minutes, and then look in the bowl for the presence of blue water.
• If you see colored water in the bowl, you have a leak. Otherwise, the toilet is OK.
• It is recommended to inspect every toilet in your home at least 1 to 2 times per year using plumbing leak detection dye tablets.

Clean Drains and Sewer Pipes with AquaMole Nozzles

Arrive prepared to your project destination with a custom AquaMole Nozzle. AquaMole Nozzles radically improve drain and pipe cleaning due to their proportioned design to fit with your jetting hose and their strategically placed openings for water to powerfully flow through. A custom AquaMole Nozzle will save you time, and properly utilize all the available water pressure.

Smoke Test for Residential and Commercial Properties

Turbo-Fog® equips your company with another way to advance to needed endeavors. Powerful, non-toxic smoke moves through pipes to find leaks, pipe problems, and to check sewer systems.