Reliance Plumbing Sewer & Drainage, Inc. Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Repiping’

Corrosion, Rust, & Age: Are Your Pipes at Risk?

Monday, February 24th, 2025
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The thought of repiping might make you feel nervous or overwhelmed. How could you possibly replace the plumbing pipes in your kitchen or bathroom, or in your whole house? But today’s plumbers can do it in a surprisingly smooth and straightforward way, and it’s certainly better than allowing your pipes to fall apart due to corrosion, rust, and age.

Are your pipes at risk of leaks and breaks? Could you suddenly end up with a very big plumbing emergency on your hands when something old or badly rusted falls apart? Do you need to consider repiping some or all of your home? Let’s consider plumbing materials, how they age, and how a plumber can assess the condition of your pipes.

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Need Help with Your Bathroom Plumbing?

Monday, September 3rd, 2018

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When you set out on a bathroom remodeling project, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that you’ll have to think a lot about your plumbing. Perhaps you’re just doing a fairly “simple” job of removing old fixtures and attaching new ones, or maybe you want to move some stuff around. Either way, we recommend contacting a professional Skokie, IL plumber, especially if it involves repiping.

If you have a bit of experience here and there handling some plumbing work, like patching up a pinhole leak or tightening a connection, you may feel confident that you can handle a bigger project with ease. But you will likely end up being unpleasantly surprised. Aside from this, there are factors you probably haven’t thought about that professionals deal with every day! Read on to learn more.

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