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Tommy Bynum repipes Gastonia and Gaston County homes, from one failing run to the whole house and the line from your meter. Call (704) 825-4463 and describe your plumbing issue.
- Serving Gastonia since 1979
- Licensed plumbing contractor (L.12997)
- 500+ Five-Star Google Reviews
What Repiping Services Do We Handle?
Tommy Bynum repipes Gastonia homes whose water lines are failing faster than they can be patched. A whole-house repipe replaces every supply line from the main shutoff to each faucet, toilet and appliance. A partial repipe replaces one bathroom, one run or one part of the house. We also replace the buried service line from your water meter to the house. Most repipes use PEX, and copper is available if you’d rather have it. A drain that’s slow or backing up is a drain cleaning call, and a single leak is usually a pipe repair.
What to Expect When You Repipe a House
A repipe runs new supply lines through the house while the old ones still work, then switches each fixture over. Expect some openings in walls or ceilings, and time without water during the switch, not for the whole job.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Planning the route | We work out where the new lines will run and where the walls need openings |
| Running the new lines | New supply lines go in from the main shutoff to each fixture. In a crawl-space house, much of that work happens under the floor |
| Switching over | Each faucet, toilet and appliance is connected to the new lines. This is when the water is off |
| Testing | We pressure-test the new lines and check every connection before any wall is closed |
| Closing up | We patch the wall openings |
| The service line, if it's part of the job | We replace the buried line from the meter to the house and connect it to the new system. We tell you what the digging involves before anything is dug up |
Is Repiping Worth It for Your Gastonia Home?
Repiping is worth it when the pipe itself is the problem, not one spot on it. That usually means galvanized steel that has started to corrode, polybutylene supply lines, or copper with pinhole leaks turning up in more than one place. Age is the first clue. The median Gastonia home was built in 1979, and just over half the city’s housing, 51.6% of 34,721 units, went up before 1980. If yours is one of them, what the pipe is made of usually decides the answer.
Galvanized steel corrodes from the inside
Galvanized steel was common in homes built before about 1970, alongside copper. It rusts from the inside, so the first signs are falling water pressure and rust-colored water, often long before a leak. Once one section leaks, the pipe beside it is usually in the same condition, and a patch tends to move the next leak a few feet down the line. Two Rivers Utilities also warns that homes with galvanized pipe that was once connected to a lead service line have an increased risk of lead exposure.
Polybutylene was installed from 1978 to 1995
Polybutylene is a gray plastic supply pipe, and it was also used for some buried service lines. Its leaks led to Cox v. Shell Oil, a national class-action settlement covering polybutylene systems installed from January 1, 1978 through July 31, 1995. You can usually spot it under sinks, at the water heater or in the crawl space. A polybutylene system that has started leaking is the clearest case for a whole-house repipe, because the rest of the house is the same pipe at the same age.
What Two Rivers has on file for your service line
Two Rivers Utilities is working through every service line in its system under the EPA’s lead rules. The city says a home built in 1988 or later has a lead-free service line, and for older homes Two Rivers has to identify the material. In November 2024 it mailed notices to homes whose service line material was unknown, and its online map shows what’s on record for your address. The stretch from the meter to the house is yours, and if it contains lead, the city says replacing it is the owner’s job. Two Rivers says it will work with those owners, and it has information on possible financing. Its notice suggests asking a licensed plumber to identify the line, and Tommy Bynum can. If the line is leaking rather than old, start with leak detection.
How a Repipe Quote Works
Every repipe starts with a look at the house, and you get the price before any work starts. Repiping is priced by the house, not the hour, so the number comes after we’ve seen your pipes, not over the phone.
The four steps
01. You tell us what’s been happening. Repeat leaks, low pressure, rusty water or a notice from Two Rivers. We tell you whether it sounds like a repair or a repipe, and when we can come look.
02. We look at the pipes. We check what they’re made of, where they run, how many fixtures they feed, and what’s between us and them.
03. You get the price before work starts. If a repair would still hold, you get the repair and repipe prices side by side.
04. We schedule the work. You know which days we’ll be there and when the water will be off. When it’s done, your invoice describes what was replaced.
Repiping Across Gaston County
We repipe homes in Gastonia, Belmont and Kings Mountain, and across Gaston County from our shop at 2232 Plastics Drive in Gastonia. Call (704) 825-4463 and we’ll set up a time to look at your pipes.
Repiping Questions From Gastonia Homeowners
It depends on the house: how many bathrooms and fixtures the lines feed, whether it’s one story or two, whether the pipes run through a crawl space or finished walls, and whether the service line from the meter is part of the job. PEX usually costs less than copper. You get the price after we’ve looked at your house.
We use PEX on most repipes. It’s flexible, so it runs in long lengths with fewer joints and usually needs fewer wall openings. PEX maker Uponor also says PEX is much more freeze resistant than copper or CPVC, which counts in a crawl space on the handful of nights a year Gastonia gets down to 20°F. Copper is rigid, has been in homes for generations, and costs more. If you’d rather have copper, we’ll quote it.
Find the pipe where the water line comes into the house, usually in the crawl space. Plastic is easy to spot. If it’s metal, Two Rivers Utilities suggests a refrigerator magnet: if it sticks, the pipe is galvanized steel. If it doesn’t, scratch it gently with a coin. Lead scratches easily and turns shiny silver, while copper doesn’t scratch easily and stays copper-colored. If you can’t tell, we can.
Yes. A partial repipe makes sense when the trouble is in one area, like one bathroom, one run of galvanized in an otherwise copper house, or a section that keeps leaking. The catch is the pipe you keep. If the rest of the house is the same galvanized or polybutylene, a partial repipe moves the problem instead of ending it, and we’ll tell you so.
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