Whole-house repiping is one of the most common serious plumbing jobs in North Charleston, and it is almost entirely a function of when your house was built.
Galvanised pipe is the reason
Homes in the pre-war core — Park Circle, Olde Village, the streets around the old Navy Base — were plumbed with galvanised steel. It corrodes from the inside, so the pipe narrows for years before it ever leaks. The symptoms are gradual: pressure that has quietly dropped, discoloured water first thing in the morning, and two fixtures that cannot run at once.
Repair or repipe, honestly
Patching one section of galvanised usually just moves the failure a few feet. If we open a wall and find the pipe is closed up along its length, we will tell you that repiping is the better spend even though it is the larger invoice — rather than take payment for a repair we expect to see again.
What it involves
Modern PEX or copper, run through existing cavities and attics wherever possible. That keeps the demolition to targeted access points rather than opening every wall. We handle permitting, and we can phase the work if doing the whole house at once is not realistic right now.
Service line, not just the house
The line from the meter to your house is your responsibility. If your pressure is low everywhere and repiping inside did not fix it, the service line is the next place to look. Directional boring replaces it without trenching the yard.