Much of the housing around the Third Ward, Riverside Terrace and Montrose was plumbed in galvanized steel or cast iron, and that material has reached the end of its service life. Pace repipes Houston homes and businesses. Seventy years in these neighborhoods means we have opened a lot of these walls and know what is behind them before we start.
How to know it is time
Repeat leaks in different places is the clearest signal. Rusty or brown water at the tap, water pressure that has quietly fallen off over the years, and visible corrosion on exposed pipe are the others. One leak is a repair. A pattern of leaks in a galvanized system is a system telling you the rest of it is the same age as the part that just failed.
What repiping actually involves
We walk the house, map what is there, and give you the scope before anything opens. Water is off for portions of the work, not the whole project, and access openings get planned rather than improvised. You get a real conversation about materials, timeline and what the house needs versus what can wait.
Call us when you notice
- More than one leak in the same house within a year
- Rusty, brown or metallic tasting water
- Water pressure that has dropped off over the years
- Visible corrosion or scale on exposed pipe
- Galvanized or cast iron plumbing you have never replaced