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Whole-Home Repiping in Metro Vancouver

When the supply plumbing in a house 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, plan the routes to keep wall damage down, and handle the permit and inspection.

Copper plumbing fittings ready for a repipe
When It Is Time

Seven Signs a House Needs Repiping

Repiping is a significant job and not every plumbing problem calls for it. These are the situations where it does.

  • ✓The system is Poly B — grey pipe stamped PB2110 is past its design life everywhere in BC. More on Poly B.
  • ✓Leaks keep repeating — multiple failures on different runs means the material itself is finished, not one bad joint.
  • ✓Pressure is falling house-wide — not one slow tap — everything, gradually, over months.
  • ✓The water discolours — red, brown, yellow or cloudy water after sitting overnight points at the pipe interior.
  • ✓Visible corrosion — green or white crust, flaking, pitting or staining on exposed runs.
  • ✓The pipes are noisy — banging and knocking can mean failing supports, loose runs or pressure problems in an aging system.
  • ✓The plumbing is 50+ years old — galvanised steel in particular has usually silted itself half-closed by then.
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50+ yrs
PEX-A expected service life
2–5 days
Typical Metro Vancouver job
Permit
Pulled and inspected by us
Fixed
Written price before we start

Repiping Services

  • Whole-home PEX-A repiping
  • Copper repiping
  • Poly B replacement
  • Partial and targeted repipes
  • Water service line replacement
  • Manifold and shut-off upgrades
  • Condo and townhome repiping
  • Permit, inspection and documentation
PEX-A and copper compared with Poly B for repiping a Metro Vancouver home
Materials

PEX-A as Standard, Copper on Request

PEX-A is what we install in most homes, and the reasoning is practical rather than ideological. It is flexible enough to follow existing cavities, which means fewer openings in your walls. It does not corrode. It handles a freeze without splitting the way copper does. And its expansion fittings avoid the plastic insert design that made Poly B joints so unreliable.

Copper remains an excellent pipe and we install it whenever a homeowner wants it or the application calls for it. It costs more in material and in labour, and in a retrofit it generally means opening more wall, so we will be straight with you about what the premium is actually buying.

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The Process

How We Run a Repipe

The difference between a repipe you barely notice and one you never stop talking about is planning.

01

Assessment

We identify the material, map the runs, count the fixtures and find the access points. Free, and you get it in writing.

02

Fixed quote

One price, scope spelled out, including exactly which openings we will make and how we leave them.

03

Permit

We pull the municipal plumbing permit and book the inspection. You do not deal with the city.

04

Protection

Floors covered, furniture moved and sheeted, work areas contained before any cutting starts.

05

Installation

New supply throughout, new shut-offs, water back on at the end of each day wherever the stage allows.

06

Test, inspect, document

Pressure tested, signed off by the inspector, and handed over with the full paperwork package.

FAQs

Repiping Questions

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 is more than fifty years old, water pressure has been falling across the whole house rather than at one fixture, or the water discolours after sitting overnight. If a plumber has fixed the same run twice, ask about replacement instead.
PEX-A is the most flexible of the three types, which matters in a retrofit — it takes tighter bends, so it can often be pulled through existing cavities where a stiffer pipe would need a new opening. It also uses expansion fittings, where the pipe is stretched over the fitting and shrinks back onto it, rather than a fitting crimped into the bore. Fewer restrictions, fewer wall openings, and a joint that does not rely on a plastic insert.
PEX-A for most homes: it costs less, installs faster, damages less drywall, will not corrode, and handles a freeze far better than copper does. Copper still makes sense if you specifically want it, for exposed runs where the look matters, or in certain mechanical room applications. We quote either — and we will tell you honestly when the extra cost of copper is not buying you anything.
During working hours on the days we are on site. We restore water at the end of each day wherever the stage of the work allows it, so most households still have water overnight. On the day the system is cut over, expect a longer shutdown. You will know the schedule before we start.
Yes. A whole-home repipe is permitted work in British Columbia, has to meet the BC Plumbing Code, and has to be done by a licensed plumber. We pull the permit and arrange the municipal inspection as part of the job. Beyond compliance, that paperwork is what an insurer or a buyer will ask to see later — a repipe without a permit is worth noticeably less to both.
If the cause is the pipe, yes — and often dramatically. Corroded copper and degraded Poly B both restrict flow internally, and replacing the runs restores the design pressure. If the cause is something else, such as the municipal supply, a failing pressure-reducing valve or an undersized service line, a repipe will not solve it. We diagnose before we quote so you are not paying for the wrong fix.

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Free assessment, fixed written price, permit and inspection handled. Book it in and we will take it from there.

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