- Service
- Whole-House Repiping
- Category
- Pipes and leaks
- Where
- Newmarket and nearby York Region
- Booking
- By telephone
Clues that point to whole-house repiping
- Repeated pinholes in the copper, one after another.
- Galvanized steel supply lines with low flow and rusty water.
- Polybutylene pipe, the grey plastic used in some homes in the 1980s and 1990s.
- A gut renovation that already has the walls open.
Our method, in order
We plan the new layout before cutting anything. Most repipes use PEX, a flexible plastic that can be pulled through walls with fewer openings than rigid pipe, with manifolds or branch tees and new shut-off valves at every fixture.
- Survey. Trace the existing lines, note every fixture and find the shortest neat routes.
- Protect. Floors and furniture are covered, and we work room by room.
- Run new pipe. Through basements, closets and existing chases where possible.
- Connect and test. Each fixture is moved over to new pipe, then the whole system is pressure tested.
- Decommission the old pipe. Removed where reachable, capped where buried in finished walls.
- Patch. Openings are left clean and square for drywall repair.
Bench note
Most homes have water running again by the close of each working day. We plan the sequence so you are never without a working bathroom overnight.
Newmarket houses and this job
The older houses in Old Town and along the streets off Main Street were often replumbed piecemeal over many decades. We find galvanized, copper and plastic all joined together, sometimes with poor transitions that corrode. Repiping there tidies the whole system.
Houses from the late 1970s to the 1990s, such as those in Bristol-London and Huron Heights, usually have copper. Many of those systems are still sound, and we will tell you if spot repairs make more sense than a full repipe. Where we see pinholes clustering, though, more will follow.
What a repipe usually includes
| Item | Included |
|---|---|
| New main shut-off valve | Yes |
| Fixture stop valves | Yes |
| Permit and inspection | Yes, where required |
| Drywall finishing and paint | By you or your contractor |
Start with a conversation
Call to book a survey. If you suspect polybutylene, see polybutylene replacement, and for steel pipe, read our galvanized pipe circular.
Phoned-in questions
How many days does repiping take?
Plan on several working days for an average detached house; size, access and wall finishes all move that figure.
Will we need to stay elsewhere?
Usually not. We turn the water back on at the end of each day.