Poly B Replacement in Richmond, BC
If your Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond is past it.
Richmond adds a second problem to the usual Poly B one: when a supply line fails here the water has nowhere to drain away to, because the ground is already saturated.
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.
Steveston · Broadmoor · Seafair · Terra Nova · Hamilton — and everywhere else in Richmond.
Permitted work in Richmond goes through the City of Richmond. 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 →Richmond built out heavily through the 1980s and early 90s, which puts a large share of its detached and townhome stock inside the Poly B window.
Richmond sits at or barely above sea level with a high water table, so sump pumps and perimeter drainage do more work here than almost anywhere else in the region — and a pump failure shows up faster.
We will confirm whether it is Poly B, what condition it is in, and what replacement would cost in Richmond. No charge.