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Pipe Repair and Whole-Home Repiping in Las Vegas

Two pipe problems are common in this valley. A run of homes was plumbed in grey 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 grey polybutylene supply piping, which fails at the fittings, and replacing it end to end.

Worth knowing

Before you book

Polybutylene is a known failure

If your home has grey 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.

Questions

Pipe Repair & Repiping, answered

How hard is the water in Las Vegas?

Las Vegas Valley Water District publishes valley tap water at roughly 291 parts per million, about 17 grains per gallon, and classifies it as very hard, around two and a half times the national norm. The minerals come from the Colorado River through Lake Mead. It is the single biggest reason water heaters, fixture cartridges and dishwashers wear out faster here than their rated life suggests.

Do I need a permit to replace a water heater in Las Vegas?

Yes. Clark County, the City of Las Vegas and the City of North Las Vegas all require a permit for a replacement as much as for a new installation. Which of the three you deal with depends on your address rather than your mailing city, because a Las Vegas postal address can sit in unincorporated Clark County. We pull the permit and meet the inspector as part of the job.

Are you licensed and insured?

Yes. Monkey Wrench Contractors LLC holds Nevada State Contractors Board licence 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, licence 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.

Are you actually available 24 hours a day?

Yes, dispatch runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on (702) 900-5992. If water is actively running and you cannot stop it, shut off your main first and call second, because that one step is the difference between a wet floor and a flooded one.

Is there help with the cost of finding a leak?

There can be. The Southern Nevada Water Authority runs a Leak Detection Assistance Program that gives qualifying single-family customers a voucher worth up to $250 toward leak diagnosis or the first hours of repair. You apply as the account holder before work begins and use a participating plumber, and it is one voucher per property per calendar year.

On the line, just in time.

Free inspection, flat-rate price before we start, dispatch open 24 hours a day.