When the supply plumbing reaches the end of its life, patching it one leak at a time stops making sense. We replace the whole system in PEX-A or copper.
The clearest signal is repetition. One leak is an event; three in two years is a system telling you it is finished. Other markers: the plumbing is Poly B or more than fifty years old, pressure has been falling across the whole house rather than at one fixture, or the water discolours after sitting overnight.
Sumas Mountain and the rural fringes often have long private service lines that are worth assessing alongside the house plumbing.
We install PEX-A as standard. It is flexible enough to follow existing cavities, which means fewer openings in your walls, it does not corrode, it handles a freeze far better than copper, and its expansion fittings avoid the plastic insert design that made Poly B joints so unreliable. We fit copper whenever a homeowner wants it.
The difference between a repipe you barely notice and one you never stop talking about is planning — so we map every run and agree exactly which openings we will make before anyone picks up a tool.
Clearbrook · Abbotsford West · McMillan · Sumas Mountain · Historic Downtown — and everywhere else in Abbotsford.
Permitted work in Abbotsford goes through the City of Abbotsford. We pull it and book the inspection as part of the job — you do not deal with the city.
The seven signs a house needs repiping, the materials, the process and the timeline.
How repiping works →Abbotsford saw substantial growth through the 1980s and 90s, which puts a lot of Clearbrook and Abbotsford West housing inside the Poly B window.
The Fraser Valley gets colder and holds the cold longer than the coast does, so frozen pipes are a genuinely bigger risk here than in Vancouver.
Free assessment in Abbotsford, fixed written price, permit and inspection handled.