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.
Repiping a heritage New West home is as much about respecting the finishes as it is about the pipe — the routing plan matters more here than anywhere.
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.
Queens Park · Sapperton · Uptown · West End · Queensborough — and everywhere else in New Westminster.
Permitted work in New Westminster goes through the City of New Westminster. 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 →New West has one of the oldest housing stocks in the region — plenty of Queens Park and Sapperton homes predate Poly B by half a century and are on original galvanised. The Poly B here is mostly in the 1980s and 90s condos, townhomes and renovations.
Character homes here often have deep, damp basements and original supply runs that have never been touched.
Free assessment in New Westminster, fixed written price, permit and inspection handled.