Affordable Alternative to Expensive Pipe Repairs

Plumbing problems in a home or a commercial building can equate to costly pipe repairs for the home or business owner. If a plumbing problem occurs inside of a wall or a concrete slab, the plumber that does the pipe repairs will have to take measures that are usually quite extensive. These sorts of pipe repairs are also extremely expensive.

The process of getting to pipes that are inside of walls and floors for pipe repairs is can be destructive to a home because the floors and walls literally have to be torn away from the pipes in order to replace them or to do pipe repairs. This destruction and then the reconstruction following the pipe repairs will double what the pipe repairs would have cost alone.

The type of pipes that builders use in constructing the building will be the largest factor in how likely it will be for the building to need pipe repairs. The types of pipes that are likely to need pipe repairs are copper pipes. Copper pipes are the most difficult pipes to install so plumbers are prone to making mistakes during installation. Plumbers might neglect to ream or wipe joints or they might over flux the copper pipe, all of which will cause an eventual need for pipe repairs. In addition, copper pipes are more likely to corrode due to internal erosion than other pipes and the result of this will be an eventual need for pipe repairs as well.

It is desirable to avoid such arduous pipe repairs by not installing copper pipes in a new building. If, however, an existing building that has copper plumbing needs pipe repairs, there is one alternative to the expensive process of demolition and reconstruction.

There is a process, the ACE Duraflo system, in which a plumber can make pipe repairs without getting directly to the damaged area of the pipe. When plumbers use the ACE Duraflo system for affordable pipe repairs, they also coat the inside of the pipes with a barrier that prevents future leaks.