You turn on the shower and somebody flushes a toilet, and suddenly you're standing under a cold trickle. Or the water coming out of the tap has a rusty tint to it. Maybe you've already patched the same pipe twice this year. If that sounds like your house in Colton, the pipes in your walls are wearing out.
A lot of homes around here, especially in South Colton, Cooley Ranch, and the older streets off Mount Vernon Avenue, were built between the 1940s and 1970s. That means galvanized steel or, in some cases, polybutylene plumbing. Both clog up and corrode from the inside, and our hard Inland Empire water speeds it right along.
PEX repiping fixes it for good. We pull out the old, failing lines and run flexible, scale-resistant PEX through your house. The pressure comes back, the rust goes away, and you stop playing whack-a-mole with leaks.
Why Your Old Pipes Keep Failing
Galvanized steel pipe rusts from the inside out. You can't see it happening, but every year the opening inside the pipe gets smaller as scale and corrosion build up. Colton's hard water leaves mineral deposits that make it worse, so a half-inch line ends up flowing like a pencil. That's where the weak pressure and the rust-colored water come from. Polybutylene is its own headache: it gets brittle and splits, and it was pulled from the market for exactly that reason.
Patching one bad section doesn't help much, because the whole system is the same age and corroding at the same rate. Fix a leak in the kitchen and the bathroom line goes next month. At a certain point you're throwing good money at a dying system.
Repiping with PEX is the real fix. PEX is a flexible plastic tubing that doesn't rust, resists scale buildup, and handles our occasional cold snaps better than rigid pipe because it has a little give to it. We map your home, run new lines to every fixture, tie into your main, test the whole system under pressure, and patch up behind us. You get full pressure back and pipe that's built to outlast the rest of the house.
Signs It's Time to Repipe
- Water pressure drops to a trickle when two fixtures run at once
- Rusty or brown-tinted water, especially first thing in the morning
- You've had two or more pinhole leaks in the last year or two
- Visible corrosion, rust, or green crust on exposed pipes or fittings
- Your home was built before 1980 and still has its original plumbing
- Hot water takes forever and never quite gets strong
