Whole-home repipe
Poly-B, Kitec or galvanized replaced with copper and PEX.
- Sequenced so water is on each night
- 100 psi test, documented
- Every joint photographed
- Drywall patched paint-ready
From $8,400 typical 2-bath house
Poly-B · Kitec · galvanized · cast ironRepiping your city houses since 2004Character homes: Historic District · Garden District · North End
Your house is ninety years old. Its plumbing has been replaced twice, badly.
We repipe character homes in your city's older neighbourhoods — one house at a time, with the walls opened where they must be and left alone where they need not be. Copper and PEX, permitted, pressure-tested and photographed behind every patch.
- Poly-B and Kitec replacement specialists
- Every concealed joint photographed before closing
- Permitted and inspected, drywall patched to paint-ready
- One repipe crew at a time — your house, all week
4.9 from 212 reviews · 480 houses repiped since 2004
Poly-B & Kitec
The two your city problems
Photographed joints
Before any wall closes
22 years
On character homes
Pressure tested
At 100 psi, documented
What we do
Work that lives inside your walls
Almost everything below is invisible once it is finished, which is exactly why we photograph it. You should be able to see what you paid for after the drywall goes back.
Bathroom renovation plumbing
Rough-in, venting corrections and fixture setting.
- Venting brought to code
- Rough-in inspected before close
- Fixtures set and tested
- Coordinated with your trades
From $3,900 per bathroom
Cast iron stack replacement
The 1930s stack that is rusting from the inside out.
- Same chase where possible
- Sound-insulated where it passes bedrooms
- Old stack removed, not abandoned
- Permit and inspection
From $5,600 typical two-storey
Water service replacement
Lead and undersized galvanized services, replaced.
- City side coordinated for you
- Lead services prioritised
- Lawn and walk restored
- Flow tested before and after
From $6,800 from the shut-off
Water heater & boiler swaps
Including the awkward 1920s basements nobody wants to work in.
- Venting brought up to current code
- Old unit removed down awkward stairs
- Expansion tank where required
- Permit pulled
From $2,150 tank, installed
Heritage fixture restoration
Claw-foot fillers, pillar taps and cross-handle valves.
- Rebuild kits sourced where they exist
- Chrome and nickel handled carefully
- Honest verdict on unsalvageable pieces
From $165 per hour
How it works
How a repipe runs
- 1
Pipe survey
Two hours. Every accessible run identified by material, photographed, written up.
- 2
Scope and quote
A fixed price with the sequence, the wall openings and the patch standard written down.
- 3
The work
Ten to fourteen days. Water on every night, dust walls up, one crew, same faces.
- 4
Test, photograph, patch
100 psi test, joints photographed, inspection booked, walls patched paint-ready.
480
Houses repiped
22 yrs
On older your city homes
1
Repipe crew at a time
4.9★
Across 212 reviews
Transparent pricing
Repipes priced by the house, not the fixture
Every quote follows a survey, because two houses on the same Historic District block can differ by five thousand dollars depending on what the last renovation left behind.
Partial repipe
Where the failing material is confined to one area.
$4,600 one floor or one bathroom stack
- Failing runs replaced in copper or PEX
- Permitted and inspected
- 100 psi pressure test
- Joints photographed
- Drywall patched paint-ready
Whole-home repipe
The full job, sequenced around you living there.
$8,400 typical 2-bath character home
- Failing runs replaced in copper or PEX
- Permitted and inspected
- 100 psi pressure test
- Joints photographed
- Drywall patched paint-ready
- Every supply run replaced
- Water on every night
- New shut-offs at every fixture
- As-built drawing included
- Two-year workmanship warranty
Repipe & stack
Supply plus the cast iron stack, done in one opening.
$13,500 supply and drainage together
- Failing runs replaced in copper or PEX
- Permitted and inspected
- 100 psi pressure test
- Joints photographed
- Drywall patched paint-ready
- Every supply run replaced
- Water on every night
- New shut-offs at every fixture
- As-built drawing included
- Cast iron stack replaced in ABS
- Sound insulation where it passes bedrooms
- Five-year workmanship warranty
These are real numbers for a typical two-bathroom character home of about 1,400 square feet. Knob-and-tube-era houses with plaster and lath, three storeys, or a finished basement in the way will be quoted higher — and the survey tells you which one you have before you commit to anything.
Reviews
From owners of old houses
4.9 from 212 reviews · 480 houses repiped since 2004
“1912 house, Poly-B from a 1990s renovation on top of galvanized from who knows when. Eleven days, water on every single night, and the photo record of every joint is now in the file I will hand the next owner.”
“They talked me out of doing the stack at the same time — said the cast iron had another decade in it and showed me the camera footage. Cost them five thousand dollars of work.”
“The survey alone was worth it. Two other plumbers quoted from the basement ceiling; Coppercraft opened three inspection holes and found Kitec upstairs that nobody had mentioned.”
Service area
The neighbourhoods we know
We work mostly in your city's pre-1960 housing stock, because the surprises in those houses are the ones we have already seen. Newer suburbs we take on referral, usually for Poly-B replacement.
- Historic District
- Garden District
- Riverside
- Central District
- Central Village
- North End
- East Village
- Eastside
- Southside
- Armstrong's Point
- South Village
- Old Southside
Photographed before it is covered
Every concealed joint is photographed and the set is emailed to you before the drywall goes on. If a joint we made ever leaks, we repair it and make good the finish — two years on a repipe, five when we do the stack as well.
FAQ
What owners of old houses ask
Send a photo of the pipe at your water heater to hello@example.com and we will identify it for free — no visit needed.
How do I know if I have Poly-B?
Grey flexible pipe with a copper or plastic crimp ring, common in your city houses plumbed or renovated between about 1985 and 1997. Send us a photo of the pipe at your water heater and we will tell you for free.
What about Kitec?
Orange and blue pipe with brass fittings, mostly 1995 to 2007 and common in condos. The brass fittings corrode from the inside. If you have it, plan to replace it — the class-action settlement fund is long exhausted.
Do we have to move out?
No. We sequence the work so the water is on every night. Expect dust walls, no water during working hours, and one bathroom out of service at a time.
Copper or PEX?
Both, in the right places. PEX for long fished runs and anywhere flexibility helps; copper at the mechanical room, exposed runs and anywhere it will be seen. Anyone insisting on only one of them is selling their own convenience.
Find out what is actually behind your walls
A two-hour survey: every accessible run identified, material by material, with photographs and a written plan that tells you what to do now and what can wait five years.