Retail Leak Detection in Vancouver

Why retail facilities in Vancouver 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 Vancouver, the local building stock — high-rise concrete towers, wood-frame walk-ups, character single-family homes and pre-war duplexes — shapes how retail sites investigate water and envelope issues. Vancouver mixes 1910s heritage homes with 60-storey concrete towers, so leak investigations vary enormously between properties. Heritage neighbourhoods like Kitsilano and Strathcona tend to show old copper and galvanized failures; downtown and Yaletown towers more often have slab penetrations and envelope failures behind window-wall systems.

What retail operators in Vancouver 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 Vancouver

Cold bridges through poorly insulated post-and-beam character homes, moisture trapped under flat-roof balconies, condensation on aging single-pane window assemblies.

Most-relevant services for retail in Vancouver

• Building Envelope Imaging in Vancouver — Thermal scans of walls, ceilings and roof assemblies for moisture and air leakage.
• Moisture Mapping in Vancouver — Quantitative moisture readings paired with thermal evidence.
• Insulation Gap Survey in Vancouver — 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.

Vancouver coverage

Neighbourhoods served: Downtown, West End, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, Marpole, Renfrew-Collingwood, Hastings-Sunrise, Strathcona, Yaletown, Coal Harbour, False Creek.