If the water looks rusty when you first open a tap, or the pressure died on the second floor, the galvanized is likely eating itself. Polybutylene (the gray or copper-colored 1990s plastic) is its own insurance problem. We repipe houses while people still live in them.
Copper or PEX
Both are good when they’re installed like we mean it. Copper looks right in a vintage mechanical room and handles Colorado’s UV in garages. PEX is faster through a finished house and forgives freeze better. We’ll walk the house and recommend by layout, not by what’s on the truck.
How a repipe week feels
We stage so you keep a working bath. Access panels where they’re honest. Walls opened only where the run requires it, then left ready for patch. At the end you get labeled valves and a pressure number, not a shrug.
- Galvanized, PB, and failing copper
- Live-in-place sequencing
- Water pressure you haven’t had in years