The Fremont repipe is a slab repipe
Most Fremont houses from the 1950s through the 1980s were built on concrete slabs with copper water lines laid under the floor. Decades on, that copper wears through from the outside and the inside. The first slab leak gets a spot repair. The second one is the point where most owners ask whether to keep paying to break the floor.
Taking the pipe out of the slab
A repipe ends it. We leave the old lines where they are, shut off, and run new hot and cold lines overhead through the attic and down inside the walls to each fixture. No more pipe under the floor means no more slab leaks. Flooring stays in place. Wall openings are small and are placed where they are least seen.
What you get
- New water lines to every fixture, in copper or PEX.
- New shutoff valves and supply lines.
- A written scope first: what is replaced, the material, the schedule and when water will be off.
- A permit, when the job needs one.
Repair once more, or repipe?
We will price both, side by side. If this is the home's first leak and the copper we can see looks sound, a repair may be right. If it is the second or third, the money usually goes further on a repipe. Start with leak detection if you are not sure where the water is coming from.
Older homes in Niles and Centerville
Fremont's older houses sit on raised foundations with galvanized steel pipe. Those are repiped from the crawl space, a simpler job. The signs there are low pressure and rusty water.
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