Poly B Replacement in Surrey, BC
If your Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey is past it.
If there is one city in the region where we would tell every owner of a pre-1996 house to go and look at the pipe, it is Surrey. The growth years and the Poly B years are essentially the same years here.
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.
Fleetwood · Guildford · Newton · South Surrey · City Centre · Panorama Ridge — and everywhere else in Surrey.
Permitted work in Surrey goes through the City of Surrey. 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 →Surrey is one of the most affected cities in the region, and the reason is simply timing: Surrey’s biggest decades of growth overlap the 1978-1995 Poly B window almost exactly. Fleetwood, Guildford and Newton in particular are full of homes plumbed in it.
Newer Surrey subdivisions are usually slab or crawlspace, which affects how a repipe is routed and what it costs.
We will confirm whether it is Poly B, what condition it is in, and what replacement would cost in Surrey. No charge.