Retail Leak Detection in New Westminster

Why retail facilities in New Westminster use Infrareds

Retail environments have wide-open floor plates, valuable inventory and customer-facing spaces. A leak that floods stock or shuts a section of the store hits margin directly. We work around store hours, coordinate with property managers and tenants, and deliver fast-turnaround reports for insurance and operations.

In New Westminster, the local building stock — heritage Queens Park homes, ageing concrete towers along the river, Sapperton's mix of healthcare and residential, modern Quayside mid-rises — shapes how retail sites investigate water and envelope issues. BC's oldest city has a deep stock of heritage homes (Queens Park, the West End) alongside ageing river-edge concrete towers and modern mid-rise Quayside developments. Heritage plumbing realities and ageing tower envelope failures dominate the workload.

What retail operators in New Westminster typically worry about

• Inventory damage from leaks can dwarf the cost of detection many times over
• Customer-area work must be done outside store hours or with screening in place
• Multi-tenant property coordination across landlord, tenant and insurer is the norm
• Roof leaks above retail floor plates are particularly destructive at scale

What we typically find in New Westminster

Envelope failures on ageing concrete towers, missing insulation in heritage conversions.

Most-relevant services for retail in New Westminster

• Building Envelope Imaging in New Westminster — Thermal scans of walls, ceilings and roof assemblies for moisture and air leakage.
• Moisture Mapping in New Westminster — Quantitative moisture readings paired with thermal evidence.
• Insulation Gap Survey in New Westminster — Identify cold bridges and missing insulation in finished walls.

Sector framing

Retail sits under our Commercial service track. Documentation, scheduling, billing and reporting are tuned to commercial expectations — including procurement-ready invoicing and insurance-aligned reporting.

New Westminster coverage

Neighbourhoods served: Downtown, Sapperton, Queens Park, Uptown, Quayside, Glenbrooke, West End.