Time For A Repipe

Here at Daniel Plumbing And Maintenance when we create a post for you to read we make sure that it is a real experience that is connected to that post. For instance we have a customer with a home that was built in the sixties, needless to say that this home had a lot of damaged piping from the time itself.

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When we first showed up to the home the customer was curious to know what type of situation she was really in, she claimed the person who owned the house before her says they always had some type of water issue in the home, most from leaks in the walls, she even added they had over three slab leaks/broken water pipes in the floor. Now with the experience that we have in the plumbing trade we have seen not as bad conditions and we have seen five times worst conditions. I knew that I had to tell my customer that they should repipe the entire home as soon as possible, repiping the entire house would guarantee that every existing water pipe that was installed in the home in the sixties would be brought to current conditions, it also meant that there would no longer going to have any pipes in the floor, which also guarantees no way possible that a customer that receives a repipe from us will never have a slab leak again.

She also understood by having all of her water pipes changed out that the water pressure in her home would increase significantly, also there would not be any traces of rust buildup that would come out of the pipes first when you ran a bath or try to wash a few dishes and the kitchen sink. So we repipe the entire home and our customer could not have been happier with the outcome, she shared with us her regrets of not doing it way sooner than she chose to do it. So this message is for anyone having high water bills, rust colored water coming out of the faucets, a person that has had multiple slab leaks, or a person who just wants to be proactive and no that they would be better off with a brand new start.

Repipe Your Home With Pex Pipe

Best Thing For Your Home
Repiping your home could be the one best thing you could do to it. You know that once repiped, everything is brand new and you are bypassing old mistakes, old leaks, water damage and future slab leaks. You will instantly have better water pressure to your home, and also cleaner water to your home. We recommend Aqua-pex pipe, which doesn’t cause corrosion, cheaper than copper and you get more time for your money.

Repipe Your Home With Pex Pipe
Pex Pipe Advantages
PEX (or crosslinked polyethylene) was introduced in the US around 1980 and is often seen in radiant heat flooring applications, but has now become commonplace for repiping and plumbing repairs.

PEX popularity can be attributed to many factors, includingcost, flexibility, resistance to scale and chlorine, and fast installation with fewer connections and fittings. PEX is also more efficient as it doesn’t lose heat like a copper pipe will. Although PEX is not suitable for use outside, it is much more resistant to freezing temperatures and bursting.

Pex is color coded based on water temperature (red is hot, blue is cold, white is any) which is a handy feature.

Installing Pex Tubing can be done with cinch or crimp rings and a cinch clamp tool or compression or stab-in fittings, either technique is easier and less toxic than sweating copper. Another thing to consider when making the ultimate decision is during a Earth Shift/Earthquake the Pex pipe will move without damage more than copper will. If copper moves in the exact same way as above there would be a leak if not a flood immediately. Pex is definetly the future.

What is PEX pipe made of?
Almost all PEX used for pipe and tubing is made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). PEX contains cross-linked bonds in the polymer structure, changing the thermoplastic to a thermoset. Cross-linking is accomplished during or after the extrusion of the tubing.