If you have experienced the nightmare of a slab or water leak, recent findings show that you have lots of company. Copper water pipes, once thought to last forever, are failing at an alarming rate across Orange County. The started showing up in the mid 1990’s, soon after the EPA’s “clean Water Act in 1991” had been implemented. The EPA’s efforts to clean up the water were successful, but recent studies indicate that changes made to the disinfection process are having a negative impact on copper water pipes. The cleaner water is more aggressive and is accelerating the development of pinhole and slab leaks. If you have copper pipes, it is only a matter of time before they will fail. Knowing what options you have, either as a remedy or as preventive maintenance, may help you avoid a vicious and costly cycle of plumbing repairs.

 

In the past when a leak occurs, options were limited to breaking into the slab to repair a leak, rerouting water lines or repiping. These methods require extensive demolition to you home and disruption to our busy life for weeks and sometimes months. Furthermore, since repiping leaves you with large holes in your walls and ceilings, you will be required to hire additional contractors to fix the drywall, paint, texture and basically put your house back together.

 

If you have involved your insurance company, you can expect some adverse action like increased premiums, cancellations or non-renew. Then, after going through al that, the new copper pipes may only provide as little as five years of service before pinhole leaks begin to occur once again.

 

Today, there is am alternative to prevent or stop this ongoing cycle without tearing apart your home and will prevent your copper pipes from leaking ever again known as epoxy pipe lining or ePIPE.

 

The ePIPE process cleans the inside of your existing water piping system and seal the pipes with a healthy, non-toxic NSF/ANSI 61 Certified epoxy barrier coating making the pipes leak-proof and corrosion free. It’s like getting a pipe within a pipe without opening walls, floors and ceilings.

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