Old supply lines rarely fail all at once — they show warning signs for months before the first real leak.
What's actually failing
Homes built before the mid-1990s often still run on galvanized steel or early copper that's simply reached the end of its service life. The pipe itself corrodes from the inside out, narrowing the diameter and shedding rust into your water long before it leaks.
- Galvanized steel supply lines over 40 years old
- Recurring pinhole leaks in more than one location
- Rust-colored water, especially from the hot taps
- Noticeable pressure loss across multiple fixtures at once
"By the time we see three pinhole leaks in a year, it's not bad luck — it's the whole system telling you it's done."
Marcus Hill · Senior Technician
Why a planned repipe beats an emergency one
A scheduled repipe lets us map the whole system, protect your floors and walls, and finish in a single day with minimal disruption. Waiting for a full failure usually means water damage on top of the repipe itself — and a much bigger bill.
What a repipe actually involves
Most homeowners picture a repipe as demo day — walls torn out, dust everywhere, weeks of living out of boxes. That's not how the work actually goes. We cut small, targeted openings at each fixture location, usually just a few inches wide, and run new PEX lines through the existing wall cavities and attic space wherever the layout allows, rather than opening up entire walls. The job moves in stages, one section of the house at a time, so you're never without water in every room at once, and on a typical single-day repipe the water is back on and tested at full pressure by that evening. The openings we made get patched before we leave, ready for you to paint over — we don't hand the job back to you as a drywall project on top of everything else. It's a disruptive day, not a disruptive month, and the number of openings depends on your home's layout, but the goal on every repipe is the same: get you back on water on schedule with as little cutting as the routing allows.
Pinhole leaks, rusty or discolored water, and dropping water pressure across multiple fixtures are the three biggest tells that your home's pipes are past their prime. Catching it early means a planned, single-day repipe instead of an emergency one.
