Short answer
Repiping in Apache Junction means replacing failing polybutylene or corroded galvanized supply lines with PEX, run overhead through the attic so future leaks can never happen under your slab. Most single-story homes here are a one to three day job, and the drywall repair is included rather than handed to another contractor.
If your Apache Junction home was built between roughly 1978 and 1995, there is a real chance it was plumbed with polybutylene. Look under a bathroom sink: dull gray or blue-gray flexible pipe, usually with copper or plastic crimp fittings, stamped PB2110. It was inexpensive, fast to install, and it was used in millions of American homes before it became one of the largest construction defect problems in the country.
The failure mode is what makes it dangerous. Chlorine and chloramine in treated water degrade the pipe from the inside, and it becomes brittle without any external sign. It does not usually announce itself with a slow drip you notice and deal with. It splits, often at a fitting, often behind drywall, often while nobody is home.
Galvanized steel — standard in the older stock closer to downtown Apache Junction — fails differently but is just as much of a problem. It rusts internally until the interior diameter closes down, which is why so many older houses here have pressure that has gotten quietly worse for twenty years and rusty water first thing in the morning.
Gray pipe under your sink?
Send us a photo or book a free assessment. We will tell you what you have and what it would cost to be done with it.
Signs your house needs a repipe, not another patch
Gray plastic pipe under the sinks
Polybutylene. If you have it, you are on borrowed time regardless of whether it has leaked yet.
Repeat pinhole leaks
Two or three leaks in different places within a couple of years is a system telling you it has reached end of life.
Pressure that has faded over the years
Classic galvanized. The pipe is rusting closed from the inside and no amount of fixture cleaning brings it back.
Rusty water on the first draw
Brown or orange water when a tap has sat overnight, clearing after a minute, means corrosion inside the supply lines.
Pressure drops when a second fixture opens
Flush a toilet and the shower loses volume? Restricted supply lines cannot feed two demands at once.
A slab leak on an old system
When a first slab leak shows up in a house with original decades-old copper, it is rarely the last one.
What a repiping job includes
Every quote covers the items below. If something is not on this list, it is not in the price — and we will say so before we start.
Material identification in more than one location
Partial repipes are common here, and what is under the kitchen sink is frequently not what is in the bathroom wall.
A fixed written price, not an estimate
Fixture count, routing plan, material, permit, drywall repair and a schedule — one number, agreed before we start.
Your home protected, not treated as a site
Floors covered, furniture moved and draped, work areas contained, and cleaned up at the end of every day rather than the end of the job.
PEX-A run overhead with expansion fittings
Full-diameter connections, sleeved through framing, properly supported, and kept out of the slab entirely.
Pressure test and inspection before anything closes
The permit inspection happens while the walls are still open. We do not cover work that has not been signed off.
Drywall patched, textured and paint-ready
Our own crew. Old lines are capped and abandoned in place rather than demolished out, which saves enormous destruction for no downside.
Why PEX is our default here
We repipe almost exclusively in PEX, and the reasoning is specific to this climate and this water rather than a general preference. PEX is flexible, which means long runs with far fewer fittings — and fittings are where systems leak. It does not corrode, so hard water and mineral content do not eat it the way they work on copper and steel. It tolerates the temperature swings an Arizona attic subjects it to, and it is quieter, with none of the water hammer that rigid copper transmits through a house.
Copper is still an excellent material and we install it where a customer wants it or where a specific application calls for it. But it costs substantially more, it takes far longer to install, and in areas with aggressive water chemistry it is susceptible to the same pinhole corrosion that put a lot of Arizona homeowners into slab leak repairs in the first place.
What matters more than the material argument is the installation. We use manifold or home-run configurations where the layout allows, keep runs continuous, sleeve anywhere pipe passes through framing or concrete, and support lines properly so they are not resting on a joist edge for twenty years.
PEX-A with expansion fittings
Our standard. Full-diameter connections, no reduction at the fitting, excellent memory and freeze tolerance.
Home-run manifold where practical
Each fixture on its own line from a central manifold. Better pressure balance and individual shutoffs.
Overhead routing
Running new supply through the attic and down interior walls keeps future leaks out of the slab entirely.
Copper on request
Available where a customer prefers it or an application requires it, quoted honestly against PEX.
What a repipe week actually looks like
People imagine a repipe as weeks of chaos. It is not. Most single-story Apache Junction homes are a one to three day job, and you keep water at the end of every day except possibly one.
The work is mostly overhead. We run new supply lines through the attic and drop into interior walls at each fixture, which means the openings we make are small, deliberate, and mostly high on walls behind and above fixtures — not random holes through the middle of your living room. We photograph and mark every opening before it is cut.
The old lines get abandoned in place rather than demolished out of the slab, which saves an enormous amount of destruction and cost for zero downside. New lines get pressure tested and inspected before anything closes up. Then drywall goes back — and because we do drywall and finish work as part of the business, that is our crew, our responsibility, and one invoice rather than you chasing a second contractor.
The honest case for doing it before it fails
Nobody enjoys spending money on pipe they cannot see, and we are not going to pretend a proactive repipe is exciting. Here is the actual argument.
A planned repipe happens on your schedule, with your furniture moved, with a written price agreed in advance, and with the drywall repaired as part of the job. An emergency repipe happens after a line splits at two in the morning, and by then you are paying for the plumbing plus water damage remediation plus flooring plus drywall plus whatever was on the floor of the closet where it happened. The plumbing is the small part of that bill.
It also removes a disclosure problem at resale. Polybutylene is a known material defect, buyers’ agents look for it, and inspectors flag it. A house with a documented full repipe in PEX is worth measurably more than the same house with a note about polybutylene in the inspection report.
How a repipe runs
- 1
Assessment and material ID
We confirm what you actually have — polybutylene, galvanized, copper — check pressure, and map the fixture layout.
- 2
Written scope and fixed price
Number of fixtures, routing plan, material, permit, drywall repair, and a schedule. One price, agreed before we start.
- 3
Protect the house
Floors covered, furniture moved and draped, work areas contained. This is somebody’s home, not a job site.
- 4
Run new lines
Overhead through the attic, dropped to each fixture, sleeved through framing, supported properly and kept out of the slab.
- 5
Pressure test and inspection
The system is tested and the permit inspection happens before a single wall gets closed.
- 6
Drywall, texture and paint-ready finish
Our own crew patches, textures and blends the openings. Old lines are capped and abandoned in place.
What drives the price
Repipe quotes are free, fixed, and written. We price by the actual job rather than a per-square-foot formula, because two 1,800 square foot houses can be very different jobs. What moves the number:
- Number of fixtures and bathrooms
- This is the real driver. Every sink, toilet, tub, shower, hose bib, water heater and appliance connection is a termination.
- One story or two
- Two-story homes need drops through more finished wall, which means more openings and more drywall work.
- Attic access and routing
- A walkable attic with good clearance is efficient. A low-slope roof, dense truss webbing or a flat roof with no attic changes the approach entirely.
- Material choice
- PEX is our standard and the best value here. Copper is available and costs considerably more in both material and labor.
- Restoration scope
- Drywall patch, texture match and paint-ready finish are included in our quotes. Matching an unusual texture or finish takes longer and we will say so up front.
Every quote is written, and the number does not change afterward. AZ ROC CR-37 Plumbing · BBB A+ accredited.
Why AllStar Home Services for repiping
One to three days, and water at the end of each day
We stage the work so the house stays functional. You are typically without water for part of one day only, and you get the schedule in writing with the quote.
We put the wall back ourselves
Drywall Repair is one of the categories BBB accredits us under. Patching, texturing and blending is in the quote, not a referral to somebody else.
The quote is the price
You hear the number before we start and it does not move afterward. It is the single thing customers mention most in our reviews.
Licensed, insured and permitted
Arizona ROC classification CR-37, issued November 2024, BBB accredited A+. We pull permits and pass the fee through at cost.
Where we provide repiping
Repiping demand maps directly onto construction era. We work this service across Apache Junction and Gold Canyon from our 15th Ave shop, then out through Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe and Fountain Hills. The 1978–1995 polybutylene belt runs through Ironwood Estates, Acoma Estates and Apache East Estates in Apache Junction and across east Mesa and Superstition Springs; pre-1978 galvanized dominates Apache Village, Hazelwood, central Mesa, older Tempe and Superior.
Further out we cover Florence, Coolidge, Casa Grande, Maricopa, Eloy, Superior and Mammoth, and we will tell you honestly when a small job does not justify the drive. Send us a photo of the pipe under a bathroom sink from anywhere in that list and we will identify the material at no charge before you book anything.
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