Poly B Replacement in Burnaby, BC
If your Burnaby home was built between 1978 and 1995, the grey pipe behind the drywall is very likely Poly B. We replace it in PEX-A and hand you the paperwork your insurer asks for.
If your Burnaby home was built between 1978 and 1995, the grey pipe behind the drywall is very likely Poly B. We replace it in PEX-A and hand you the paperwork your insurer asks for.
Poly B is the grey plastic supply pipe stamped PB2110 that went into Canadian homes from 1978 until roughly 1995. It was designed for about 25 years of service, which means every system still in the ground in Burnaby is past it.
The split in Burnaby is stark: the postwar bungalows up on the Heights and Capitol Hill usually predate Poly B, while the townhome and low-rise stock around Metrotown, Brentwood and Edmonds is full of it.
It fails from the inside out — chlorine in the municipal supply makes the pipe wall brittle, and the original grey acetal fittings are the weakest point in the whole system. Nothing about that is visible until water appears somewhere it should not.
We replace the lot in PEX-A, plan the routes first so we open as few walls as possible, and finish with the permit, the inspection record and photographs.
Brentwood · Metrotown · Edmonds · Burnaby Heights · Capitol Hill · Sperling-Duthie — and everywhere else in Burnaby.
Permitted work in Burnaby goes through the City of Burnaby. We pull it and book the inspection as part of the job — you do not deal with the city.
The full rundown: why Poly B fails, what replacement involves, how long it takes and what it costs.
How Poly B replacement works →Burnaby is split down the middle. The postwar bungalows in Burnaby Heights and Capitol Hill mostly predate Poly B, while the enormous wave of townhomes and low-rise condos built around Metrotown, Brentwood and Edmonds through the 1980s and early 90s lands right inside the window.
A lot of Burnaby sits on a slope, so supply runs cross unheated crawlspaces and under-house areas more often than people expect.
We will confirm whether it is Poly B, what condition it is in, and what replacement would cost in Burnaby. No charge.