Extensive Pipe Leak Repair without Breaking the Bank

If a house has a plumbing leak, sometimes the pipe repairs that plumbers make are simply a temporary fix to a problem that is sure to domino into a homeowner’s nightmare. Repairing a pinhole leak or a slab leak will not end the homeowner’s plumbing problems. In fact, pinholes and slab leaks are symptoms of a failing water system.

The most common way to make a pipe leak repair and repair a failing water system is to repipe the whole house. The process of repiping a house involves tearing out the interior walls, destroying the floors (including concrete slabs,) going without water for at least two weeks, pipe replacement, and reconstruction. Pipe repairs such as these are inconvenient, messy, and very expensive repairs that most homeowners cannot afford.

Consequently, many homeowners elect to spend less money on only a leak repair of the apparent leak rather than repiping. Making these types of pipe repairs delays the inevitable necessity of repiping the house. Because pipe repairs can be so costly and difficult, homeowners are always looking for an alternative method of making pipe repairs.

There is one alternative to traditional repiping. The ACE Duraflo system is a process that makes all of the pipe leak repairs necessary for a failing water system with the pipes still inside walls and concrete slabs. The person making the pipe repairs connects a small air hose to the system that needs the pipe repairs. The compressor then blows filtered, dry, heated air through the isolated system in order to dry the pipes. The next step involved in such pipe repairs is to sandblast the affected pipes with an air and corundum mixture. (Corundum is an abrasive mineral that is notable for its hardness.)

The final step of the ACE Duraflo system of pipe repairs is to coat the interior of the pipes with an epoxy coating that acts as a barrier that prevents future leaks from occurring. Many homeowners feel that this type of pipe repair is the best alternative to traditional repiping.