Whole-house repipe
In a whole-house repipe, new hot and cold lines run from the main shutoff to each fixture, and access holes are cut only at the points where the new pipe has to pass.
Repiping and Water Line Replacement in Yonkers
If the shower slows to a trickle when the kitchen tap opens, the first glass of the day comes out brown, or pinhole leaks keep turning up, the supply piping is near the end of its run. Repiping swaps it for new pipe, and the service line from the street can be part of the job.
Repipes and service line replacements are planned for homes in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains, starting with a look at where the old pipes run.
Repiping choices
Partial repipe
Sometimes only part of the house needs new pipe, such as the run to an upstairs bathroom or a kitchen branch that has leaked twice. If the rest checks out, we replace just that section.
Service line replacement
The pipe between the city main and your house is dug up or pulled through and replaced, then connected to the meter and the house piping.
Copper or PEX
Copper is rigid and holds its shape. PEX is flexible, threads through walls with fewer openings and has fewer joints. We talk through both before the work starts.
Lead and galvanized service lines in Yonkers
Yonkers property owners own the water service line from the house to the city main. The Water Bureau says lead and galvanized lines are found mostly in homes built before the mid-1940s, and it is taking an inventory of every service line in the city.
State law requires every covered water system with its own website to post its latest service line inventory there. It also required the state Department of Health to put the inventories of systems serving 10,000 to 2 million people on an interactive map, searchable by address, by October 16, 2026.
City approval for a repipe
A repipe changes the plumbing system, and Yonkers has to approve that alteration before it starts, on an application signed by the owner. The approved, stamped plans are the permit.
A leak that does not call for a repipe goes to leak finding, a replacement heater to the water heater page, and the full list of services sits on our homepage.
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