Fixtures & Repairs
Pipe Repair and Whole-Home Repiping in Las Vegas
Two pipe problems are common in this valley. A run of homes was plumbed in gray polybutylene, which becomes brittle and fails at the fittings, and older copper develops pinhole leaks as high mineral water works on it from the inside. Both are why a repipe to PEX is often the honest answer rather than chasing one leak after another.
What is included
The work itself
Pipe repair
Repairing a burst, split or leaking supply line, including the pinhole leaks that show up in older copper.
Whole-home repipe
Replacing the home's water lines with PEX, planned around your walls and scheduled to keep the water off as little as possible.
Polybutylene replacement
Removing gray polybutylene supply piping, which fails at the fittings, and replacing it end to end.
Worth knowing
Before you book
The work is done by our own background-checked technicians, never day-labor subcontractors. Our license and insurance are on file with the Nevada State Contractors Board, and what a visit is actually like is in our customer reviews.
Polybutylene is a known failure
If your home has gray plastic supply pipe, it is living on borrowed time and tends to let go at the fittings first.
Repeat pinhole leaks
A second or third pinhole in copper is the pipe telling you the whole run is thinning, not that you were unlucky twice.
Why PEX
PEX does not corrode from hard water the way copper does, runs with fewer fittings to fail, and installs faster.
In your home
Find it before you need it
Knowing where the shut-off is, and what a failure looks like, is the difference between a wet floor and a flooded one. These walk through pipe repair & repiping in a typical valley home.
Where we do this
Across the Las Vegas Valley
What changes between these places is the permitting authority, the water utility and the age of the housing, and all three change how this job goes. We cover 21 communities across the valley, within 45 miles of Las Vegas.
Questions
Pipe Repair & Repiping, answered
How do I know if my home has polybutylene?
It is grey plastic supply pipe, usually around half or three-quarter inch, and it turns up in valley homes built roughly between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. The places to look are at the water heater, under sinks and where the line enters the house. If you find it, it is living on borrowed time: polybutylene goes brittle and lets go at the fittings, and it rarely gives notice.
How long does a whole-home repipe take, and will I lose water?
It is planned around your walls and scheduled to keep the water off as little as possible, which in practice means the supply is down for part of the working day rather than for the duration of the job. The honest answer for a specific house depends on its size, its layout and how much of the run is accessible, and that is settled at the inspection rather than guessed over the phone.
Why PEX rather than copper?
Because of what this valley's water does to copper. PEX does not corrode from hard water the way copper does, it runs with fewer fittings and therefore fewer potential failure points, and it installs faster, which means less opened wall. In a valley where copper develops pinhole leaks from the inside, repiping in the same material that just failed is a hard thing to justify.
Should I repair a leak or repipe the whole house?
One isolated leak on otherwise sound pipe is a repair. A second or third pinhole in copper, or any failure in gray polybutylene, is the pipe telling you the whole run is near the end, and repeated repairs stop being economical. A whole-home repipe to PEX is the honest answer at that point, and we lay out both costs so you can choose.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. Monkey Wrench Contractors LLC holds Nevada State Contractors Board license 0092999 and trades as Monkey Wrench Plumbing. We are a BBB accredited business with an A plus rating, and every technician is background checked. About thirty minutes before your appointment you get a text with the assigned technician's photo, name, license number and live ETA.
Do you charge for an estimate?
No. The inspection is free and you get a flat-rate price before any work begins, so the number you approve is the number you pay. If the scope changes once something is opened up, we stop and re-quote rather than adding to the invoice at the end.
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