Warning Signs that you need a re-pipe.
- Water Quality: Rusty, poor-tasting, foul-smelling water and unfit to drink can indicate that your pipes are deteriorating.
- Frequent water leaks, especially if they keep happening after multiple repairs.
- Low Water Pressure at fixtures
- Scalding and freezing showers, Fluctuating water temperatures
- Noisy Loud Pipes, whistling, rattling, banging…
- Corrosion: Visible on pipes and joints indicates advanced deterioration.
We are Repipe Specialists in Buena Park, CA!
The professionals at DB Plumbing can eliminate these issues by re-piping your property! During your re-pipe, we can upgrade your home’s water quality with whole-house filtration, conditioning, and softening systems that provide better than bottled water quality at every fixture in your house.
Water is life. We humans and our pets are 60% water. The water that you drink is used for cooking, and the water you use for cleaning should be of the highest quality. Properly filtered, conditioned water will leave your laundry, hair, and skin softer, using less soap and spot-free dishes, and extend the life of your dishwasher, clothes washer, water heater, and all faucets and fixtures.
We can add these water filtering and conditioning systems to your Buena Park house or property even if not re-piping. Just ask your friendly DB technician.
Brief History Water Pipes in Buena Park & Beyond
Southern California homes in Buena Park, Long Beach, Cerritos, Lakewood, and other surrounding cities were built with either steel or soft copper water lines. These original installed materials are L O N G past their expected service life of 40 years.
For steel, the zinc coating wears away with water and mineral friction flowing through the line. This exposes the bare steel to water, creating rust in your drinking water.
Soft copper or type M copper, comes in large coils, is unrolled in the dirt, and rocks and, sometimes stepped on by construction workers building your home, and is most often encased in your concrete slab when it is poured.
Over the years, water and minerals flowing through the pipe wear it paper thin, as well as thermal expansion of the pipe. This is where water flows through your pipes, transferring heat and cold to the pipe, causing it to shrink and expand ever so slightly. Decades later, 300,000 times back and forth, expanding and shrinking as rocks or concrete lying next to the pipe acting like a saw blade wears a hole through the copper. – Slab Leak.
Repiping Material Options to Replace Your Water Lines
When we re-pipe your house, we eliminate the steel, lead, and other toxic metals</span< from your water system and replace them with safe heavy type L copper and or PEX.
Copper – Type L heavy copper is a common replacement for water lines. Thick, heavy, and very durable, it will provide decades of safe, reliable water service.
PEX was invented in 1968 by German scientist Thomas Engle. It was introduced in the US in 1980. California was the last state to adopt this amazing material, which replaced copper as the king for water lines in residential plumbing.
- BPA free
- Ultra-lightweight
- Resists corrosion, mineral & scale build-up
- Quieter than copper
- Flexible, expands, contracts – No clanking, banging pipes
- No thermal transfer, i.e.… condensation
- Minimal heat loss
- Resistant to freezing
- Friendly, pex joins easily and safely with steel and copper
- Lifespan, same as copper
- The list goes on…
Benefits of Repiping a House in Buena Park
DB Plumbing will not only restore your home’s water supply, but we will improve it with better volume and flow to each fixture point so that you can do laundry, flush a toilet, and shower all at the same time without fear of scalding or freezing.
For more information on improving your water’s quality and better flow throughout your home, call our office today to schedule a free quote, call our office today.