Pipe repair in Las Vegas and Clark County
Copper, PEX, galvanised and polybutylene. What the rest of the pipe looks like decides repair against replace.
Figures above are published third party data, not company claims. Sources: Las Vegas Valley Water District, water district hardness figure, water district supply figure, Clark County.
Whether a pipe gets repaired or replaced depends less on the leak and more on what the rest of the pipe looks like. Patching one pinhole in a run of failing pipe is money spent on the next leak being somewhere else.
Supply lines, drain lines and the main water line into the house are all on this page, because the diagnostic question is the same one.
Not how bad is this leak, but what is the rest of this pipe made of and how old is it. A pinhole in sound copper is a repair. The same pinhole in a run of brittle polybutylene, or in galvanised pipe that is closing up with rust, is the first of a series, and repairing it alone is the expensive route.
The build year tells you most of it. This table is general material history rather than a claim about any particular street.
| Material | Typical era and how it fails |
|---|---|
| Galvanised steel | Pre 1960s construction. Corrodes from the inside, so the bore closes with rust scale. Pressure drops everywhere at once and water runs rusty after the house sits. Repairs are usually a stopgap. |
| Copper | Common from the 1960s onward. Long lived, but builds interior scale in hard water and develops pinhole leaks at elbows and in slab runs where the pipe rubs on concrete. |
| Polybutylene | Roughly 1978 to 1995, grey and flexible. Chlorine and other oxidising disinfectants react with the plastic. It goes brittle from the inside, flakes, then splits, often at a fitting and often with no warning drip. Subject of the Cox against Shell Oil class action settled in 1995, no longer manufactured and no longer code rated. |
| CPVC | Rigid cream or off white plastic. Reliable, but becomes brittle with age and is unforgiving of movement, so failures cluster at fittings. |
| PEX | Common in newer valley construction and the usual choice for repipes. Flexible and quick to run. Failure points are fittings and any section that has had sunlight on it, because UV degrades it. |
| Cast iron, drains | Older drain lines. Corrodes and scales internally, and eventually the bottom of the pipe goes. A camera is how you assess it. |
Where the leak is hidden, it gets located before anything is opened. See our leak detection page for how.
FirstThis is the step that decides repair against replace, and it is the step most quotes skip.
On siteSound pipe gets a proper repair. Where the material or age means more leaks are coming, you get the repair price and the repipe price, and the reasoning for each.
Same visitThe repair is tested under pressure before anything is closed up, and access is patched back.
Same visitWhere a repair is the wrong long term answer but the right thing today, we will do the repair and say plainly what is coming. A repipe you are not ready for is not an emergency purchase.
No rate or range for this work is published anywhere on this site, because none has been confirmed for publication for this business. What follows is the honest version: what actually moves the number on a job like this, so you can read any quote and judge it.
Describe what is happening and you will hear what it usually means, what the repair involves and what somebody needs to see before quoting it. That happens whether or not you book the work.
Usually yes, and often that is the right call. The exception is pipe whose material or condition means the next leak is already on its way. You will get told which situation you are in, with the reason, and the decision stays yours.
Polybutylene from that era fails from the inside with little warning, and it is no longer manufactured or code rated. It is not an emergency the day you notice it, but it is a planned replacement rather than a someday item, and replacing it before it fails is much cheaper than replacing it after.
Pinholes cluster where water chemistry, flow and physical contact combine. In hard water there is interior scaling, and in slab runs the pipe moves against concrete. A pattern of pinholes in one house is a sign to assess the whole run rather than to keep patching.
A new site with a wall of glowing testimonials should make you suspicious, and this one does not have them because no review corpus has been verified for this brand. Rather than fill the space with invented quotes, these are three things about your water and your county that you can check against the agency that published them.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District publishes valley tap water at 291 parts per million, 17 grains per gallon, and categorises it as very hard. It is the reason fixtures and water heaters here do not last as long as the box promised.
Read the water district pageThe Southern Nevada Water Authority states that removing calcium and magnesium softens water but is not a necessity to protect your health. Any company telling you otherwise is contradicting the agency that tests your supply.
Read the water authority pagePlumbing and Heating, issued by the Nevada State Contractors Board under chapter 624. You can check any contractor licence on their register in about a minute, and you should, before work starts.
Check a licence on the registerAn illustrative image, not a photograph of our work.
An illustrative view of the equipment and access this job involves. It is not a photograph of our work.
These are illustrations and diagrams, not photographs of our work. No job photography, before and after pair, van, uniform or team photograph appears anywhere on this site, because we do not have verified photographs of this company work yet and generating them would fabricate evidence about a real business. Real job photography is on the list to add.
We cover pipe repair in every community below. Each area page names the authority that issues a permit for that address, which matters whenever this work is permitted.
One call. You get the diagnosis before the number, and the cost of the visit before anyone is sent out.
We are a service area business. We come to you, so there is no counter to visit and no street address on this page. The number above is the fastest way in.
None of it is required. All of it makes the call shorter.
Calling about Pipe repair? Say that first and we can skip straight to the questions that matter for it. Something else? Look through what else we cover.
Water pouring right now? Do not read the rest of this. Call (725) 255-9011 and shut off the supply while it rings.
The build year narrows it fast, and then a look under a sink, at the water heater connections or in the garage usually confirms it. Grey flexible pipe means polybutylene. Dull silver threaded pipe means galvanised. Copper is copper. Our pipe materials guide walks through identifying each.
It is not a health hazard. It is a reliability problem: the material becomes brittle through reaction with oxidising disinfectants in municipal water, then splits, often at a fitting and often without a warning drip first. It is no longer manufactured and no longer carries a US code rating.
Yes, once it has been located. The access opening gets made where the leak is, the repair is done and pressure tested, and the opening is patched. Locating first is what keeps that to one opening.
An accessible joint or fitting repair is often an hour or two. A located leak inside a wall or under a slab takes longer because of access and reinstatement, and a main water line in the yard depends on depth and route.
It scales the inside of them, which narrows the bore over years and contributes to pinhole formation in copper. At 291 parts per million, the water district figure for this valley, it is a real factor rather than a theoretical one.
Describe what is happening and we will tell you what it usually takes to fix, before anyone comes out.
