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Fixtures and repipes in Los Angeles
Faucets, toilets, shutoffs, angle stops, hose bibs. A section of pipe, or the whole house.
This is the widest of the six, because it runs from a dripping angle stop to replacing every supply line in a house. The small end is an hour. The large end is a project with a permit on it. Both start with somebody looking at what is there.
Fixtures, valves and the small things
Faucets, toilets, shutoffs, angle stops, hose bibs, supply lines, traps. The parts are cheap and the work is quick, and the reason people put it off is that a twenty year old angle stop is the thing most likely to fail the moment it is turned.
You should know that before we touch it, not after, so we will tell you when a small job carries a real chance of becoming a slightly larger one.
A section of pipe, or the whole house
Galvanized supply pipe closes up from the inside, the same way an old drain line does. Pressure drops, hot water browns, and one repair is followed by another somewhere else on the same run. Copper develops pinholes as it ages and it does not do it once.
Replacing a section is cheaper today and can be the right answer when the rest of the pipe is sound. Replacing the house is more work now and ends the conversation. We will tell you which of the two we think you have, and why, and neither one is marked recommended.
Copper and PEX, in plain terms
Copper is rigid, it is what most of this city was rebuilt in, and it takes skilled joints. PEX is flexible, it needs fewer joints because it can be run in one piece, and that is often what makes it possible to repipe a house without opening every wall.
Both are ordinary, both are used here, and which one suits a house depends on how the pipe has to be routed, not on a preference. What matters more than the material is what has to be opened to get it in.
What a repipe involves
Access first, then the pipe, then putting the house back. Walls and ceilings get opened where the runs are. The water goes off for part of it and comes back on at the end of each day wherever that is possible. There is usually a permit and an inspection, and the inspection is a good thing, not an obstacle.
What we patch and what we do not is set out on how we leave your house, and it is worth reading before you agree to a job of this size.
Questions people ask us
Can you replace just the bad section?
Sometimes, and when the rest of the run is sound that is the right answer. On galvanized pipe that has closed up along its length it usually only moves the next failure a few feet.
Do I need a permit to repipe?
Work of that size normally does, and the inspection that comes with it is worth having. We will tell you what applies to your address before anything starts.
How long is the water off?
For part of each day, not all of it, wherever the job allows. We will tell you the shape of it before we start so you can plan around it.
The rest of what we do
Tell us what is wrong.
Say what the problem is and where you are. We will tell you what we can do and what it takes.
Our work is covered for a year.
A photograph of a Los Angeles street of this kind. Not a photograph of a job by this company.