Low pressure at the far tap, new pinholes every few months or pipe you know is decades old can all justify replacing instead of repairing. We repipe a section of a house or the whole thing, and we renew the buried line from the meter.
Some houses we visit still hold their original pipe, and others are newer with a service line that has failed. Either way you begin by telling us what you see.
Pressure that sags at several taps, brown water after the house has sat idle, stains on a ceiling below a bathroom and pinhole leaks that keep arriving are all reasons to ask. One leak alone is a repair. A run of them suggests the whole branch is tired.
A bathroom group or a line under one floor can fail while the rest holds. Replacing only that branch can add years and costs you less work than redoing everything. When the leaks are spread through the house, replacing all of it makes better sense.
A water line runs underground from the meter to your house, and over the years it can rust through, crack or begin to seep. Replacing it means a trench, new pipe, connections at the meter and at the house, and a pressure test before the ground is filled back in.
PEX and copper are both on the table, and every fixture gets its own shutoff either way. PEX is flexible, comes in long coils and can be threaded through finished walls with fewer joints. Copper is rigid and has a long history in homes.
Take a flashlight to the cabinet under each sink and the area around the heater before you phone. Pipe that looks stained, crusty or clamped is worth writing down.
Which should you price, one branch or the entire house? We can answer once you tell us the year the house went up and any pipe work you know of, because the choice rests on the pipe’s condition and where leaks have turned up.
A single opening about as big as your hand can be enough to fish new pipe through a wall. Each run is connected and pressure-tested before any patching, and we pick the openings when we plan the route.
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Give us the approximate year the house went up and a description of the exposed pipe in the kitchen cabinet, if any. From those details we quote, and quoting is free of charge.
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