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Whole Home Repiping in Ocean View, DE

Two pinhole leaks in a year is not bad luck. It's the house telling you what the rest of the pipe is doing where you can't see it.

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Three Kinds of Pipe Fail Around Here, for Three Different Reasons

If your house went up between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s, there is a fair chance the supply lines are polybutylene. Grey or blue plastic, usually with crimped fittings. It was installed by the mile up and down this shore and it fails from the inside, which is why a house can look fine right until it doesn’t.

The older cottages on the town grid have galvanized steel instead. That rusts inward over decades, so the pressure drops everywhere at once and the hot side goes first. If your shower has slowed over ten years and you stopped noticing, that is usually why.

And copper, which should outlast all of it, pinholes early on acidic well water. Low pH eats it from the inside and puts a hole through a wall or a ceiling with no warning at all. That one is not about the age of the pipe. It is about the water, which is why we test the well before we quote a repipe on one.

The fix is the same shape in all three cases and the reason for it is not, so the first thing we do is work out which one you have.

What a Repipe Actually Involves

Step 1

Working out what you have

Before anything else, what the pipe is and what the water is doing to it. On a well we test, because a copper repipe on untreated acidic water fails the same way the last one did. That test also tells you whether treatment belongs in the same job.

Step 2

Whole home Re-piping

Replacing the supply lines through the house, hot and cold, back to the main. We open what has to be opened and no more, and we put it back. On a two-story house the routing decides how much wall comes out, which is worth talking through before anyone starts.

Step 3

Main Water Line Replacement

The line from the meter or the well to the house, which is a different job: excavation rather than drywall. It is what you need when pressure is low everywhere, when there is a wet patch in the yard that never dries, or when the line is old galvanized and the house side has already been done.

Step 4

Partial Repipes & Repairs

Not every house needs the whole thing. One failed section on otherwise sound copper is a repair. A single bathroom on polybutylene, in a house where the rest was done years ago, is a partial. We’ll say which one you are looking at, including when the answer is the cheap one.

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Areas we serve

Based on Cedar Neck Road in Ocean View, covering Sussex County and the shore communities around it. One company for plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical, so a repipe that needs a circuit moved doesn’t turn into two scheduling problems.

  • Ocean View, DE
  • Millville, DE
  • Frankford, DE
  • Rehoboth Beach, DE
  • Bethany Beach, DE
  • Selbyville, DE
  • Dagsboro, DE
  • Lewes, DE

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Good to Know

Re-Piping Questions We Get Asked

Can’t see vours? Call and ask – we’d rather answer than have you guess

One leak in one place is a repair. What points at a repipe is a second or third pinhole in the same year, water that runs discoloured after the house has sat empty, pressure that has dropped everywhere rather than at one fixture, or supply lines you can see that are polybutylene or galvanized. On a well we test the water too, because if it is acidic the new copper fails the way the old copper did.

Look where the pipe is visible, usually a basement, a crawl space or under a sink. Grey or blue plastic with crimped metal rings is polybutylene, roughly 1978 to 1995. Dull silver-grey metal that a magnet sticks to is galvanized steel, generally pre-1970 here. Copper is unmistakable. If you can photograph it, send the photo when you call and we can tell you a great deal before anyone comes out.

It depends on four things: how many bathrooms and fixtures there are, whether the house is on one story or two, how much of the run is accessible, and whether the water needs treatment to protect the new pipe. A single-story house with an open crawl space is the low end. A two-story with finished walls throughout is the high end. We’ll look at it and give you a free estimate before anything starts.

It is a risk rather than a certainty, and nobody can tell you when. What is worth knowing is that it fails from the inside, so an inspection of the visible pipe tells you very little, and that some insurers ask about it. If yours has never leaked, there is no emergency. If it has leaked once, treat that as the first one rather than the only one.

Usually not. We stage the work so the house keeps water overnight wherever it can, which matters more for a house someone lives in than for one that sits empty. If you are three states away and the house is empty anyway, that is the easiest version of this job and the best time to do it.

Yes. We’re insured and bonded, and we carry a Delaware plumbing license.

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