Michael karas nov 15 13 at 11 16.
Cost to run busted pipes thru attic from slab.
30 year or more home built on a slab and water lines are being damaged and lines are breaking.
This fee may be included in a re plumbing contractor s bid or be an additional charge.
It would be another 1250 if a second line needs to be routed.
They said it s 1850 a day for repairing a slab leak through the concrete floor usually multiple days of work but 2550 for a reroute through the attic.
How much a plumber charges mostly depends on the severity of the problem in your.
I recently repaired a pipe at the back wall of my home where as l had to dig under the slab and it was reachable.
Tile and concrete cutting anywhere from 30 to 50 lineal metre cut or 125 135 hour with minimum call outs of 250 excavation of broken or damaged pipes 40 100 hour depending on whether you have another tradesman to dig or if you leave it to the plumber removal and.
The company may also charge 50 150 to be present during required inspections by the local building or planning department.
Running pex in an attic.
For a variety of reasons from pipe damage under a slab to home design constraints water pipes may need to be run or rerouted through a home s attic.
Option 2 is to reroute the pipes some other way.
The repair can usually be completed in just a few hours.
Because there are.
Through this can be pulled the pex water lines.
Most commonly it s done up and through the attic.
I now have a water leak that could be further under the slab and not reachable.
Apart from the cost of the new pipes and fittings and the time the plumber takes to procure and install them on average 80 100 hour pipe repairs that require digging up under a house slab will also incur costs via.
Option 1 is to cut the concrete and bust out slots to run new pipes.
Fees vary but typically cost 70 400.
Structural pipe lining also known as cured in place pipe lining cipp rehabilitates a damaged cast iron drain pipe by using a felt liner and a special epoxy to create a pipe within a pipe.
Re piping a house usually requires a permit from the local planning or building department.
If rerouting the pipes because of your location i would use pex and have no joints in your attic.
Maybe the proper fix for the under the slab routing of the water lines was to install 4 diameter pvc piping under through the slab that has all gradual turn corners.
If no boards or beams run horizontally between the wall studs the pipes can often be fed through the walls up to the attic.
The work includes detecting which line.
Plumbers typically charge 45 to 150 per hour with a minimum service call out fee of 50 to 100 small plumbing repairs like unclogging a toilet or fixing a leaky faucet typically cost 125 to 350 larger jobs such as repairing the plumbing on a pipe leak you ll pay about 500 to 800.
When running pipes from a slab to an attic use an inside wall.
Sheetrock repair not included.