Whole-House Repipe in Gainesville, FL

New water lines through your whole house, without your whole house getting wrecked.

Rather text? Send a photo of the problem to 352-377-9447 and we’ll tell you what it sounds like.

Every hole we cut gets patched

Professionally patched before we call it done. Permitted and inspected. Licensed CFC1430748. Residential plumbing services

Typical whole-house repipe, start to water back on.

2 to 4 days

Service call to come out and look, waived on larger jobs.

$ 69

Parts and labor warranty, with the manufacturer warranty on top.

2 yr

The short answer. A whole-house repipe in Gainesville, FL replaces every water supply line in your home, usually with PEX A or copper, in about two to four days. Homes built before 1975 with galvanized steel and homes piped between 1978 and 1995 with polybutylene are the most common candidates. First Choice Plumbing is licensed, CFC1430748, and we patch every hole we cut.

Do You Actually Need a Repipe?

Plenty of people call us about a repipe and drive away with a $200 repair instead. That is a good day for everybody. So before you spend real money, here is how to tell the difference.

A repair makes sense when one pipe failed in one spot and the rest of the system is sound. A repipe makes sense when the failures have started stacking up, because at that point you are not fixing a pipe, you are buying time on a system that has already told you what it plans to do.

Signs the system is done, not just the one pipe:

You have had two or more supply leaks in the last couple of years, in different places.
The first water out of the tap in the morning comes out brown, yellow, or cloudy.
Pressure drops off hard when a second fixture runs.
The pipe you can see is galvanized steel and it is scaled, flaking, or weeping at the threads.
Your home was piped between 1978 and 1995 and you can see gray, silver, or blue flexible plastic pipe with crimped fittings.
A plumber has already told you the copper has pinhole leaks, plural.

If that is one item and not five, start at pipe repair instead. If your only problem is the line from the meter to the house, that is a water service line replacement and it is a much smaller job. And if you know water is going somewhere but nobody can tell you where, start with leak detection, not a repipe.

$69 to come out and look. Waived on larger jobs.

What It Costs and How People Pay for It

We are not going to put a repipe price on a web page, and you should be careful with anyone who does. The number depends on how many fixtures you have, whether the house is one story or two, whether it is slab or crawl, how the attic is framed, and how much of the run is accessible. Two houses on the same street can be thousands apart.

What we will tell you plainly is what it costs to find out. It is $69 for us to come out, and that gets waived on larger jobs. There is no charge to walk the house and write the estimate once we are there, and the price we hand you is the price. If you also need us to find a hidden leak first, leak detection is $375 flat, and we find it or you don’t pay.

Most people do not pay for a repipe out of a checking account. We offer financing through Wisetack on jobs from around $500 up, with a soft credit check that does not affect your score to see your options.

See financing options before you call.

Who You Are Actually Hiring

A repipe is one of the largest checks most people write for their house, and it gets handed to a crew of strangers who are about to open your walls. We understand exactly why that is uncomfortable. So here is who shows up.

Will Harrod owns First Choice Plumbing. He is a Florida Certified Plumbing Contractor, license CFC1430748, and he writes every repipe estimate himself by walking your house, not by quoting you off a square-footage chart over the phone. Mike runs the service side and is background checked. Kim answers the phone and dispatches, which is why you get a person instead of a call center.

We are a locally owned shop out of Hawthorne. Small on purpose. That means we are not paying a franchise fee, a national ad budget, or a manager who has never seen your house, and that shows up in your number. It also means Will’s name is on the work. He is reachable during the job and after it. If something is wrong at month eleven, you are not filing a ticket, you are calling the guy who priced it.

What Gainesville Houses Are Actually Piped With

Alachua County’s housing stock grew hardest in the 1960s and 70s, and it grew again through the 80s and early 90s. That is not trivia. It tells you almost exactly what is behind your walls, and it tells us what is going to fail next.

Cast iron is a drain material, not a supply material, so it is not part of a repipe. If your problem is on the drain side, that is a different job and often a trenchless one.

Not sure what you have? Send us a photo of the pipe at your water heater. We will tell you what you are looking at, no charge.

Galvanized steel, roughly pre-1960s.

Steel pipe with a zinc coating that wears off from the inside out. It rusts inward, the opening closes up, and the water that comes through picks up the rust. If your morning water is brown and your pressure is weak everywhere, this is usually why. Galvanized does not get better. Once it starts, the whole run is on the clock.

Copper, 1960s onward.

Good pipe, and plenty of Gainesville copper is still fine. But older copper develops pinhole leaks, and pinholes come in groups. One is a repair. Three in two years means the run is thinning and you are chasing it.

Polybutylene, roughly 1978 to 1995.

Gray, silver, or blue flexible plastic, usually with crimped acetal or metal fittings. It was cheap and fast to install and it failed nationwide, most often at the fittings, often with no warning at all. Florida insurers took notice. Some will not write a policy on a home that still has it. If you have poly, replacing it is not just a plumbing decision, it is an insurance one.

CPVC and PEX, 1990s to now.

CPVC is common in this region and works, though it gets brittle with age and heat and does not forgive being bumped in an attic. PEX A is what we run most often on repipes now. It is flexible, so it goes in with far fewer joints, and fewer joints means fewer places to leak.

How a Repipe Works Here

The walkthrough.

Will comes out, looks at what you actually have, checks pressure, opens the wall or the attic where he needs to, and maps every run. You get a written scope and a fixed price before anything starts. If the honest answer is that you need a repair and not a repipe, that is what he tells you.

Permit, then pipe.

Plumbing work like this is permitted and inspected in Alachua County, and we pull it. Then we run the new lines, usually PEX A, from the main through to every fixture. We cut access where we have to, not wherever is easiest. Water goes off during the tie-in and comes back on the same day in most homes. Most whole-house repipes here run two to four days depending on size, story count, and how the house is framed.

Inspection, patch, done.

The system gets pressure tested and inspected. Then a professional drywall contractor patches every hole we cut, finished and ready for your paint. We do not paint, and we will tell you that up front rather than let you find out at the end.

You stay in the house for almost every repipe we do. You will lose water for part of a day, not for a week. Call Now: (352) 377-9447

We Patch Every Hole We Cut

The reason people put off a repipe is not the pipe. It is the picture in their head of a house full of open drywall and a crew that disappears once the water works. That does not happen here. Every access hole we open gets patched by a professional drywall contractor as part of the job, finished and ready for paint. We do not paint, and we say so before you sign anything. You should not have to hire a second contractor to clean up after your plumber.

The Difference Is in the Details

Get a real number from the person who will actually run the job. Licensed CFC1430748. Locally owned, out of Hawthorne. We answer at 2 a.m.

What matters on a repipe	First Choice Plumbing	Typical franchise or out-of-town repipe crew
Who prices your job	The owner, on site, after walking your house	A commissioned salesperson working off a price book
Drywall after the work	Every hole we cut is patched by a professional drywall contractor, finished for paint	Often "patch not included," left to the homeowner or a separate bid
What it costs to get a number	$69 service call, waived on larger jobs, published right on this page	No pricing published anywhere on the site
Permit and inspection	Pulled and scheduled by us, inspected before we close walls	Varies, and sometimes skipped on smaller scopes
Warranty	2 years parts and labor, manufacturer warranty on top	Commonly 1 year, or tied to a paid membership
Who is in your house	A small local crew, background checked, same faces every day	Rotating subcontracted labor
After the job	You call the owner directly	You call a national number and open a ticket
Local knowledge	Knows Alachua County housing stock, well water, and which neighborhoods hide which pipe	Same page and same script used in forty other cities

What Happens If You Wait

Waiting is a legitimate choice, right up until it isn’t. Here is what usually pushes people off the fence.

A supply line does not politely fail while you are standing in the room. It goes at two in the morning, or while you are at work, or over a long weekend. Then the cost is not the pipe. It is the flooring, the baseboards, the cabinets, and the drying equipment, and you are doing the repipe anyway, just under pressure and with a restoration crew already in the driveway.

If your home still has polybutylene, there is a second clock running. Some Florida carriers will not write a policy on a home that has it, and coverage for the pipe itself is commonly excluded. Replacing it is often what makes a house insurable again.

Nobody plans a repipe. The people who come out of it best are the ones who did it on a Tuesday they picked, instead of a Saturday the house picked for them.

What It Looks Like Done Right

Thursday afternoon, the inspector signs off, the drywall guy pulls his tape, and you get your house back. The water at the kitchen sink comes out clear on the first draw. Somebody starts the shower and the pressure at the other end of the house does not move. There is no ceiling stain you are keeping an eye on, no shutoff valve you have gotten good at finding in the dark, and no plumber’s number saved in your phone under “again.” The walls are closed, patched, and smooth. The only thing left to do is pick a paint color, and that part is genuinely up to you.

Where We Work

We are based in Hawthorne and we repipe homes across Gainesville and Greater Alachua County, including Newberry, Archer, Micanopy, Waldo, Alachua, High Springs, Melrose, Keystone Heights and Windsor, plus the well-water and farm properties east and south of town.

That last part matters on a repipe. Rural homes on private wells have pressure tanks, softeners and filtration in the middle of the supply system, and a repipe has to be planned around that hardware instead of ripped through it. See everything we do for homes here.

2 to 4 days

Typical whole-house repipe, start to water back on. You stay in the house for almost every one.

$69 to come out and look

Waived on larger jobs. A fixed written price after Will walks the house.

2-year parts and labor warranty

With the manufacturer warranty on PEX and fittings on top.

Permitted and inspected

We pull the plumbing permit and schedule the inspection before we close the walls.

Frequently Asked Questions About Repiping in Gainesville

How do I know if my house needs a repipe?

Repeated leaks in different places, discolored water on the first draw, pressure that drops when a second fixture runs, and visible corrosion on the pipe are the four big signs. One leak is a repair. Several leaks over a couple of years usually means the system is failing rather than a single pipe. Will will tell you honestly which one you have.

How long does a whole-house repipe take?

Most Gainesville homes run two to four days. Smaller one-story houses can finish in about two, and larger two-story homes with several bathrooms take longer. Water is off during the tie-in and back on the same day in most cases. Inspection and drywall patching happen after the pipe work.

How much does it cost to repipe a house in Florida?

Published Florida ranges are wide, roughly $4,500 to $15,000, because fixture count, square footage, story count and access change the number so much. We do not quote off a chart. It is $69 for us to come out, waived on larger jobs, and you get a fixed written price after Will walks the house.

PEX or copper, which should I use?

We run PEX A on most repipes. It is flexible, so it installs with far fewer joints, and fewer joints means fewer places to leak. It also runs 30 to 40 percent less than copper for the same scope. Copper is still an excellent pipe and we install it when a customer wants it or the job calls for it.

Do I need a permit to repipe a house in Alachua County?

Yes. Repipes, water heater changeouts and fixture relocations all require a plumbing permit. Unincorporated Alachua County permits through the county Growth Management Building Division, while the City of Gainesville and other municipalities permit through their own building offices. We pull the permit and schedule the inspection as part of the job.

Will my homeowners insurance pay for a repipe?

Usually not. Most Florida policies will cover sudden and accidental water damage caused by a failed pipe, but they will not pay to replace the plumbing system itself. Polybutylene is stricter still, since some carriers exclude it or will not write a policy on a home that has it. Check your own policy language.

Do I have to move out while you repipe?

Almost never. You stay in the house for nearly every repipe we do. You will be without water for part of a day during the tie-in, and there will be crew, drop cloths and noise while we work, but you keep sleeping in your own bed.

What happens to the holes you cut in my walls?

A professional drywall contractor patches every one of them as part of the job, finished and ready for paint. We do not paint, and we tell you that before you sign anything so there are no surprises at the end.

Stop patching the same pipe.

Get the owner out to your house, get a fixed price in writing, and get your walls put back the way you found them. Licensed CFC1430748, locally owned, out of Hawthorne, two-year parts and labor warranty. Leaks don’t stand a chance.

Book a Repipe Walkthrough. $69 to come out, waived on larger jobs. Financing available.

Tell us what's going on and we'll take it from there

You get a real person, a $69 visit, a flat price before we start, and a company that patches what it cuts and answers the phone when you call back. If a smaller fix is the right call, we’ll tell you that too.

First Choice Plumbing is a locally owned, owner led plumbing company working Gainesville, Hawthorne and Greater Alachua County. Leak detection, repipes, water heaters, drains, trenchless lining, well water filtration and septic. We find it, we fix it, we guarantee it.

Florida Certified Plumbing Contractor CFC1430748

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