re: Has anybody ever experienced having a house re-piped?

How much are they charging you for the job? What all is included? New shower valves? New hose bibbs? New shut-off valve?

Also, is your home single or two-story and how many bathrooms?

It's a precious metal and look for the prices to rise a bit. The more electric cars the more copper wire as well as most technology pieces.

But copper plumbing pipe is mostly wall thickness in different types. Type L is thicker than Type M (with same OD) and although ASTM dictates thickness some foreign (China) copper has been mislabeled and used (think Chinese drywall as well) which has caused problems.

But I know people that use a lot of copper in flat stock or coils and they swear they can tell US and Chili ( as their benchmark) from China and Mexico that they don't like. They tell by the way it cuts, breaks or solders.

Tell them you want two new shower valves and trim kits included.

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fricking Chinese or Korean (not racist) copper pipes in the slab said "frick you, Sid!" after 20+ years.

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Probably more likely the results of galvanic reactions with materials in the slab and the copper pipe.

Like he said, more than likely a poorly wrapped/sleeved copper pipe in a slab. Copper and concrete do not mesh well, and will become a problem, just a matter of when. I've been building for 15 years and have never seen copper in a slab unless it was an architect that spec'd it for aesthetics in a fancy exposed plumbed bathroom.

We almost re-piped a house. We lived in Collierville, TN for about 7 years. Apparently the builder who built most of the neighborhood in the 80s used pipes that were thinner than normal. There was also something about the water in Collierville having more minerals than normal or something. The combination was every house in the neighborhood eventually having multiple pin pick leaks.

We had our first leak that ruined half our downstairs wood floors about 6 months after we put them down. We got two more in the ceiling of the first floor.

The estimate to fix it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I think it was roughly $7-8,000 for the plumbing work. That would be running a new line in from the street in a corner of the house, going up two floors into the attic and then back down to the different locations. We had a great plumber and he guaranteed it would be done in one day, even if his team was there until midnight.

Sheet rock repair was another $2,000. This guy worked with the plumber and they had a lot of experience together. He would go ahead of the plumber cutting out sheet rock where needed, then go behind them and repair it. I doubt he would have finished in the one day.

No quotes on painting as we didn't get that far. In the end, we moved back to New Orleans and left that mess behind. We kept waiting for another leak during the selling process, but thankfully it didn't happen!