I recently had Plumb Plumbing come to my house to replumb it. The house is an older house built in 1955, double-course brick walls. It was expanded two times since the 50's, both in double-course brick. So, needless to say... Getting through the "interior" walls can be difficult in places where it used to be an outside wall.
Plumb was able to retrofit this house with ease. They replaced the old galvanized plumbing with Wiersbo Aquapex, an industry standard. I had them run a whole new line from the water main. They brought out a trenching machine to cut through my asphault driveway to lay the new line.
The plumbing work took a total of two days. In day one they hooked one of my bathrooms up to insure we had water for that evening. In day two the entire plumbing job had been finished... 1 kitchen, surrounded by brick walls, in which they went from the Aquapex to copper for any lines that had to be exposed. I had them run a copper water supply for hot and cold behind my refrigerator - the only real way to do it since it was surrounded mostly by double-course brick walls. They ran the lines behind my refrigerator and then in the back my cabinets so that nothing that is exposed shows. This was probably the most difficult area in the house to replumb - in the other areas they were able to cut holes in the plaster-finished wall to run the pipes inside the wall to areas that needed a new supply. They did not run any "exposed" pipes on the outside, so the finished product looks like a neat "professional" install.
They did a total of 1 full bath, a 1/2 bath, one kitchen, and ONLY a cold water line to a 3/4 bath... which is in an area of the house that had newish (70's) copper plumbing. They needed to run the new cold line due to the way the house had been built - when this area was designed the cold run was brought to that bathroom from the outside in a trench. Only Plumb found this potential problem, and since they discovered it before starting work it was accounted for in the plan. I had 4 plumbers quote this job, and Plumb were the only ones that discovered that issue... They were the second I called, and I waited for the others to find the issue but they did not notice. There was one provider who quoted the job cheaper than Plumb Plumbing, but since no one else seemed observant enough to find that issue for the 3/4 bath I decided that Plumb was the right company for the job.
It took a little while longer to repair the walls, as the sub-contractor they hired to do the work was busy after the plumbing install. Once they arrived (Dimension Drywall), however, they were able to match the texture for all the walls that had been cut into for installation of new plumbing.
In addition to the plumbing work, I also had them install a 3M Aqua Pure charcoal/sediment filter in-line before coming into the house. This may prevent the build-up that I suspect occurred in the old system, causing a severe lack of water pressure inside the house. This is the symptom that prompted the replumbing job, as it had just been getting worse and worse for the last 10 years... The water pressure is AMAZING now. I put in a new showerhead that wouldn't have been possible without the additional pressure. Also additionally to the house work, I had them install a new water supply in the front yard (line had to be laid under existing asphault as well...). I decided to hook up the backyard plumbing myself.
PERHAPS I could have done it myself, but not as fast and not as nice. These guys know what they are doing, and they will do an excellent job. read more
