Three or more pinhole leaks in a couple of years
One leak is a repair. Three in two years, in different places, means the copper is thinning from the inside everywhere, and the next one is already on its way.
Whole-house repipe in Chantilly, done by the shop down the road.
Repipe jobs we’ve done have run $1,000 to $12,000, and a whole-house number is written after a walk-through. Chantilly has two kinds of house for this. Greenbriar and the streets around it went up in the 1960s and 70s on copper and galvanized that’s now fifty years old. Brookfield, Franklin Farm and the 80s and 90s subdivisions fall in the years polybutylene went in. Call SwiftPro at (703) 997-9757, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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From about $17 a month at 0% APR for 60 months, the whole price financed, on approved credit. How financing works
Tell us what the pipe is doing. We’ll look before anyone talks price.
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The short version
How you know it’s time, and how you know it isn’t.
Three things mean a repipe. Everything else is usually a repair. In Chantilly we see all three, depending on which side of Route 50 the house is on.
Grey plastic pipe stamped PB2110
That’s polybutylene. It went into houses built or replumbed between 1978 and 1995, it fails from the inside with no warning, and some insurance carriers won’t write a policy on a house that still has it.
Rust-colored water and weak flow at every tap
Galvanized steel rusts shut from the inside. If the flow is bad everywhere and the water runs brown after it sits, the pipe is the problem, not the faucets.
What isn’t a reason to repipe: one leak, the age of the house on its own, or low pressure by itself. Weak pressure at every fixture is usually the pressure reducing valve at the main, which runs $500 to $1,000 to replace. We check that first, every time (why).
Copper or PEX
What goes back in the walls
Copper
Type L copper is what most of Northern Virginia was built with, and it lasts. It costs more in material and labor, and every joint is soldered.
PEX
Flexible plastic supply pipe, run in long lengths with far fewer fittings, so fewer walls get opened. Both are approved under the Virginia plumbing code. We’ll tell you which fits your house and your water, and the quote says which you’re getting.
What to expect
What a repipe in Chantilly looks like
- 1
Walk-through and a written price
We look at what’s in the walls now, where it runs, and how much of the house has to open. The price is written before anything starts.
- 2
Permit pulled
A repipe is permitted work. We pull the county plumbing permit, so it gets inspected like it should.
- 3
New pipe in, old pipe out
Most of the run goes through the basement ceiling and existing chases. Walls get opened where the pipe runs and only there. The water is off for part of each day, not the whole job.
- 4
Inspected, then closed
The county inspects before anything is covered. Your written quote says who patches the openings.
Straight answers
What this work costs
Ranges from jobs we’ve actually done. Yours is priced in writing before anything starts.
Whole-house repipe
Repipe jobs we’ve done have run $1,000 to $12,000. One fixture’s section sits at the bottom, the full basement runs and every riser at the top. Yours is written after a walk-through.
or $17/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Pressure reducing valve
Generally $500 to $1,000. Worth checking before anyone talks about repiping.
Water service line, meter to house
Water service line work generally runs $3,500 to $8,000.
or $58/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
$17/mo60mo @ 0% APR
Price range
$1,000-$12,000
8yrs @ 7.99%
$14/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$11/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
Where we go
Chantilly and the neighborhoods around it
Our shop is in Chantilly, so this is the shortest drive we make. Not sure what your house has? Look where the water comes in, usually the basement or a utility closet: grey plastic, copper, or dull grey steel.
Sweating a new copper joint inside an opened wall. Walls get opened where the pipe runs, and only there.
Questions we hear every week
Repipe questions in Chantilly
My Greenbriar house has had two pinhole leaks. Should I repipe?
Two is the point to start watching. A third in a different spot, inside a couple of years, and the copper is thinning everywhere. That’s when a repipe costs less than the next round of ceiling repairs.
Galvanized or copper: how can I tell?
Scratch it with a key. Copper shows bright orange. Galvanized is dull grey and a magnet sticks to it. Galvanized in a Chantilly house is worth replacing even if it isn’t leaking yet, because it closes up from the inside.
Do I have to move out for a repipe?
No. The water is off for part of each day while we tie in, and on at night.
Copper or PEX?
Both are approved under the Virginia plumbing code. Copper is what most houses here were built with and costs more to put in. PEX runs in long lengths with fewer fittings, so fewer walls open. The quote says which you’re getting.
Do you check the pressure first?
Every time. Virginia’s plumbing code requires a pressure reducing valve above 80 psi, and parts of Northern Virginia see 100 or more at the street. A failed valve, at $500 to $1,000, explains a lot of what gets blamed on the pipes.
Keep reading
More on the pipes in your house
Not sure it’s a repipe? We’ll tell you.
Book a walk-through. If it’s one bad section or the pressure valve, you’ll hear that, and the price for that instead.
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4200 Lafayette Center Dr, Suite N, Chantilly, VA 20151
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