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.
The multi-level hillside homes here need a repipe planned around the chases, which is exactly the kind of thing that should be worked out before anyone cuts.
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.
Heritage Mountain · Klahanie · Glenayre · Moody Centre — and everywhere else in Port Moody.
Permitted work in Port Moody goes through the City of Port Moody. 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 →Heritage Mountain was built through the late 1980s and 90s and is squarely in the Poly B window. Moody Centre is a good deal older and more mixed.
The hillside neighbourhoods run colder and windier than the inlet, and the exposed runs are usually the first to freeze.
Free assessment in Port Moody, fixed written price, permit and inspection handled.