When patching stops making sense.

There is a point where each new pinhole costs more than finishing the job properly. If you have patched the same copper three times in two years, if the pressure has been dropping for a decade, or if the grey plastic under your sink is polybutylene, you are already at it. Repiping is not an emergency purchase - it is a planned one, and the whole point of this page is to make the decision feel rational and the price feel knowable before you ever call.

The houses that need it here follow a pattern. Pre-1970 Worthington, Delaware and Old Hilliard homes commonly have galvanized steel that has been rusting inward for fifty or sixty years, and Colonial Hills - built from the early 1940s into the early 1950s - is a textbook case. The 1978 to 1995 window brought polybutylene into the earliest Dublin and Powell subdivisions, which fails at fittings and behind finished walls. And the copper that went into the 1990s and 2000s Powell and Lewis Center building boom is now twenty-five to thirty years old, which is where pinholes start. Three different eras, three different reasons, one conversation.

What you should expect from us is a fixed written quote before demolition, the owner walking the job rather than a commissioned salesperson, and a plain comparison of PEX and copper with the trade-offs stated in both directions. Permits get pulled and the work gets inspected - that is not optional on a job this size, and a contractor who offers to skip it is telling you something important about the rest of their work.