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Why Are My Floor’s Hot?

Today in sunny Lancaster California we got a call from a customer complaining about her kitchen floor feeling as if there was a stove of some sort underneath the concrete. The customer also informed us that there was steam almost a humid feeling  inside the entire home, so someone was dispatched immediately to go assess the issue. The technician had done all the necessary testing to diagnose properly, and found that the customer had what we call in this profession of Plumbing a slab leak.

So the customers heart dropped to find out what had to be done in order to fix the slab leak. We let her know that the pipe could possibly be rerouted it or she could actually repipe the whole entire house and get the pipes out of the ground completely, or just do like what’s inside the picture above and repair the pipe that is actually damaged. Most customers go with the direct repair of the piping which is like what’s inside the picture above, but my professional opinion is that all the piping that is inside the ground has been they’re the same amount of time the pipe that is damage has been there. So I would suggest repiping the entire home, don’t be intimidated by the process of repiping, trust me being in the business for as long as I have it’s not that bad when repairing walls or whatever has to be done to repipe the home. This is single-handedly one of the best things you could ever invest in when purchasing a home or owning a home.

To me it’s another way of saying the piping system starts new with you, you actually know the date that all brand new piping was installed into your property. If you could do that with every major component in your home you will have pleasant, less stressful, days to come in your home. This is what we call here at Daniel Plumbing And Maintenance preventive maintenance as well.

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.