Why Choose Plumbing Express?
We are a locally owned and operated specialist in whole-home repipe projects throughout Greater Metro Atlanta and Northern Georgia. Since 1989, Plumbing Express has installed new water pipe systems in thousands of Georgia Homes. So why choose Plumbing Express?
- Free On-Site Inspections & Quotes: This visit is an opportunity for you to ask questions about preparing your home for the job, our process, materials, timetable, or any other aspect of the work you are curious about.
- Accuracy and Transparency: By evaluating your home’s plumbing system in person, we ensure that our quote reflects the true scope of work required. This attention to detail helps prevent unexpected costs, aligning your expectations with the project realities from the start.
- Plumbing & Sheetrock Included: Our turn-key services include fixing the drywall that was carefully removed to install your plumbing system. Clients love that we bring their sheetrock back to a finished condition with a computer paint match.
- New Piping and Valves: We believe in using durable and reliable plumbing materials and use the best available such as Flowguard Gold CPVC and Uponor PEX Type A. We install all new high-quality metal valves, expansion tanks, pressure regulators, and supply lines.
- Skilled Execution & Quick Turnaround: Thanks to our specialized focus, vast experience, and systematic methodology, we are able to quickly complete repipe jobs from plumbing to drywall. Most homes require only one to two full workdays to complete the plumbing work.
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Whole house repipes are common throughout Metro Atlanta and Georgia. Our team works across the state of Georgia and performs home repipes for:
We are one of the few Georgia-based companies specializing in turn-key water pipe replacement. Most homes require only one to two full workdays to complete the plumbing work.
Working with us means you are served by a locally owned company and by a knowledgeable, dedicated staff whom are passionate about plumbing.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why choose Plumbing Express for my home repipe?
Choosing Plumbing Express means partnering with a team that values precision, transparency, and customer care above all. Our commitment to you includes:
- Accuracy and Transparency: By evaluating your home’s plumbing system in person, we ensure that our quote reflects the true scope of work required. This attention to detail helps prevent unexpected costs, aligning your expectations with the project realities from the start.
- Customized Solutions: Each home is unique, and so are its plumbing needs. Our on-site assessment allows us to be prepared specifically for your home, ensuring that the repipe process is as smooth and non-intrusive as possible.
- Trust and Confidence: Our direct engagement with you, the homeowner, is designed to build trust and confidence in our capabilities. This face-to-face interaction allows you to ask questions, voice concerns, and receive immediate, knowledgeable feedback based on our repiping expertise.
- Educational Opportunity: We view each on-site quote as a chance to educate our customers about their plumbing systems and our process. This knowledge ensures you are well-informed about the repiping process and comfortable that you know how to prepare for it.
- Thorough Planning and Communication: Utilizing advanced tools like Service Titan, we meticulously document every detail of your project, ensuring seamless communication and coordination among our team. This thorough planning translates into efficient, quality service tailored to your specific needs.
- What is a slab? What is a slab leak? What should I do about a slab leak?
A “slab” is the concrete foundation that many houses are built on. It is very common to have plumbing pipes encased in the concrete slab. For various reasons these pipes encased in the concrete slab can develop leaks – these leaks are referred to as “slab leaks.” Slab leaks in pipes typically develop due to a chemical reaction. Gray Poly pipes reacts with chlorine in the water over a long period of time. Copper pipes, when not properly sleeved at the time of installation can react with the soil and concrete to develope leaks. Slab leaks can also occur for other unknown reasons.
We typically recommend a partial or complete repipe to bypass pipes in the slab as opposed to repairing the pipe in the slab. Repairing slab pipes is very invasive and costly and we do not recommend it. Slab repairs involve jackhammering the slab, removing flooring, basboard, etc. Also, it is very common for mulitple slab leaks to exist at the same time or for a slab leak to develope in a different place soon after one repair has been made. The means for locating slab leak can be inaccurate. Pipe replacement is often the most economical route because it actually ads value to the home instead of being a “band aid.” Insurance companies will often apply a portion of what would be a slab repair claim to a complete home pipe replacement.
- How many holes will be cut in the walls and ceiling for my pipe replacement?
A typical home has between 15 and 35 sheet rock cuts. A number of factors including the number of plumbing fixtures and design of the house determine the number of holes that are cut. Since part of the Plumbing Express repipe includes sheet rock repair, we do try to minimize the number of cuts.
- Is drywall repair included in my pipe replacement?
Unless the customer specifies otherwise, we alway include sheetrock repair, paint match and ceiling texture match in our complete pipe replacement. It’s truly turn-key.
- Can I have a price over the phone from Plumbing Express?
Because we need to be aware of and take into account the unique challenges present in a house, it is better have Plumbing Express give a free on-site inspection and quote. We understand that sometimes potential clients are under a time constraint for various reason so we can give a close idea of the price over the phone.
- Can Plumbing Express give me service today?
If we can, we will. We try to prioritize dire plumbing situations. Give us a call and we can discuss our availability with you.
- Do people stay in the home while the pipes are being replaced?
The vast majority of our clients do stay in the home while it is being re-piped. We are sure to restore water at the end of each day and clean up plastic that has been deployed to control debris. While a pipe replacement is a major project, we minimize our foot print.
Any person with an extreme sensitivity to dust or serious medical conditions should NOT stay in the home during the repipe.
- How long does a pipe replacement take?
Most of our repipes are substantially complete within 2 to 3 working days. Larger or more complicated homes with more wall and ceiling cuts can take four or five days to complete. The job is broken down into two parts 1) Plumbing 2) Sheet rock Repairs.
- Can you match the texture on my ceiling?
We are exceptionally skilled at matching and blending ceiling textures including popcorn ceilings (course, medium, and fine textures) and stipple ceilings. Our work is exceptional and your attention will not be drawn to our access areas.
- I have defective (leaking) pipes in the concrete slab my home is built on. How do you replace these pipes in my slab?
After our pipe replacement, the water distribution pipes in your slab will no longer be in use. Our process bypasses slab pipes so that your home will no longer be susceptible to a slab leak. If your water service line is also polybutylene penetrating the slab, that pipe can also be bypassed as a separate item in the scope of work.
- How is Plumbing Express different from competing service plumbers with respect to repiping services?
Because our plumbers have seen so many different home configurations, they are able to quickly assess an ideal approach to the repipe of your home. We have a proven method that is efficient and reliable. We use a large amount of plastic sheeting and drop clothes to help protect your home and it’s contents from construction debris and dust.
We use premium piping materials and valves. We include drywall repairs and because we do, the plumbers minimize cutting drywall. Our drywall and paint techs are special people who do great work (everyone at Plumbing Express is a W2 employee and not a subcontractor).
Plumbers who occasionally repipe houses are definitely slower, do more damage to the home finishes, do not include sheetrock repair, and often often do a substandard job simply due to lack of experience. Our experience and skill are the reason realtors trust us with their clients – we provide a good value and don’t stall or otherwise affect the home sale.
- What is an interior pipe replacement?
An interior pipe replacement is a replacement of the home’s potable water distribution system. The potable water distribution system is defined as: Pipes within a structure that convey water from the water service pipe to the points of utilization. Our standard interior repipe includes replacement of all pipes from the interior (main) shutoff valve to all the fixtures.
Our repipe service differs from other plumbing companies because we repair the home finishes such as drywall, paint, ceiling texture by default as specified in our Interior Repipe Agreement.
- Do you offer free polybutylene inspections?
Yes we do offer free polybutylene inspections. These inspections and quotes are especially useful to clients who are buying or selling a home because the presence of polybutylene affects the value of your home.