If your home is built on a slab, and you need repiping for whatever reason, the process for repiping will be similar to repiping any other home not built on a slab. Polybutylene pipe was most often used to carry hot and cold water from the water source throughout the house, and these are the pipes that will need to be replaced.
Complexity
Repiping a home built on a slab is not necessarily more complicated or expensive than repiping a home not built on a slab. If anything, it might be cheaper or less complicated because there will not likely be poly B pipes running under a home.
Poly B pipe was not often used for wastewater flowing out of the house. It was more often used for water flowing from the source or where the water enters the house to the kitchen and bathrooms. Poly B is also unlikely to be buried inside concrete.
Process
So, the general process for repiping the home built on any kind of foundation will be the same. The professionals look at where the water comes into the house and see where they see poly B pipe. Then they look at all the rooms where there is water, such as a kitchen sink, a toilet or wet bar. They open walls and track the pipe back to its source, replacing pipe as they go.
Once the pipe is replaced and all the taps and toilets are working, the walls, ceilings, and floors (sometimes) will need to be repaired.
If you need repiping, please call us on the Lower Mainland at (604) 349-5325. This is our area of expertise.
Repiping Vancouver is a division of 604FixLeak offering leak detection, plumbing repairs and restoration services in the Greater Vancouver area. Repiping Vancouver concentrates on whole home or office repiping.
If you have any questions about this article or need some help with repiping in your home or office, call us today at (604) 349-5325.
