The whole house
New supply lines run to every fixture in a whole-house repipe. Openings are cut in the walls along the old routes, and they are closed up again after the work.
Repiping and Water Line Replacement in Cedar Hill
Repiping swaps out the water supply lines inside a house, either throughout or branch by branch, and a new service line can run from the meter to the house too. Call and say what is going wrong.
Below are the repiping choices, the Lead Service Line Inventory map the city publishes and the permit rules that apply to new piping.
Repiping choices
One run at a time
A single failing branch, like the line serving one bathroom or the kitchen, can be renewed without touching the rest of the plumbing.
A new line from the meter
A new water service line runs from the meter to the house. The city’s Utility Services owns the system up to and including the meter, and the resident owns it from there.
PEX or copper
New supply pipe can be PEX or copper, and the plumber explains which fits your walls, your fixtures and the way the house is built.
Checking your service line on the city’s map
Cedar Hill publishes a Lead Service Line Inventory map that shows the material of private, customer-owned service lines. The city is using predictive modeling, with field checks at selected locations, to classify lines whose material is unknown.
Residents with a lead line, a galvanized line that needs replacing or an unknown line may get a notice. Unknown means the material has not been confirmed yet, not that the line is lead.
Permits for new piping
Cedar Hill does not name repiping as a permit of its own. The general rule applies, asking for a permit for any alteration or repair of a building system that includes plumbing, and the city’s fee ordinance has a residential plumbing repair or alteration category.
State law exempts only repairing a leak and replacing a lavatory or kitchen faucet, a ballcock or water control valve, a garbage disposal or a water closet, and new piping is on none of those.
The permit records also show plumbing permits for replacing yard water service lines, and the Responsible Master Plumber on the job obtains permits.
New pipes can follow a leak that was found first, so leak detection is a useful companion page, and the water heater page covers a failing heater, while the homepage lists every service.
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