All new plumbing or save what you can?

[Liam Naughton]

Hi all,

I manage an 11-unit property and we're going through the process of getting bids for repiping the whole building.

For context, there have been 3 owners since it was built in 1962 and the building has all different kinds of pipes. The issue is that the galvanized pipes are starting to corrode and cause low flow, or no hot water in a few of the units upstairs. (This is not to mention the spot fixes that were done with copper, some pex)

Our current plan of action is to gather some bids, it seems like it's going to cost $20k-$35k per stack.

With how ownership has changed hands, we don't know (without opening a lot of holes) where the spot fixes were done and with what.

The owner wants to move forward with a full repipe and just take it one stack at a time. I'm coming to BP to see if anyone has experience with something similar and has any suggestions on how to lower the costs of the project and minimize the impact to the tenants we have in place.

Something has to be done, but to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Thank you for any and all suggestions!