Poly B Replacement in Port Coquitlam, BC
If your Port Coquitlam 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 Port Coquitlam 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 Port Coquitlam is past it.
PoCo was subdivided heavily in exactly the wrong decades, so a pre-1996 house here is well worth five minutes with a flashlight.
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.
Citadel Heights · Mary Hill · Birchland Manor · Lincoln Park — and everywhere else in Port Coquitlam.
Permitted work in Port Coquitlam goes through the City of Port Coquitlam. 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 →Port Coquitlam saw substantial subdivision growth through the 1980s and 90s, so a large part of the housing stock falls inside the Poly B window.
Parts of PoCo sit low near the Pitt and Coquitlam rivers, which keeps sump pumps busy through a wet winter.
We will confirm whether it is Poly B, what condition it is in, and what replacement would cost in Port Coquitlam. No charge.