Bonita Springs
Repiping
Whole-Home PEX Repipes & Polybutylene Replacement by McGrath Plumbing
Serving Bonita Springs Homeowners & Businesses From Our Brighton Ln Office — Since 2004!
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Bonita Springs’ Trusted Repiping Pros
If you’re researching repiping in Bonita Springs, odds are one of three things happened: your insurance company sent a letter about polybutylene pipe, you’ve had your second or third copper pinhole leak, or a plumber just showed you gray plastic pipe behind your water heater and said a word you’d never heard before. We can help with all three — McGrath Plumbing has repiped homes across Bonita Springs since 2004.
A repipe sounds enormous. Done right, it isn’t: most single-family homes take a few days, you keep living at home, water is on every evening, and the drywall gets patched behind us. What you get back is a home with modern PEX lines, full pressure, and one less thing an insurance underwriter can hold against you.
Repiping Services We Provide in Bonita Springs
Whole-Home PEX Repipes
Complete replacement of your supply lines with PEX — flexible, corrosion-proof, and far better suited to Southwest Florida’s water than 40-year-old metal. Permitted and inspected, always.
Polybutylene Replacement
The gray pipe used across SWFL from the late ’70s through the mid ’90s fails without warning — and insurers know it. We replace it entirely, and provide the documentation your carrier wants to see.
Copper Pinhole Solutions
Our mineral-heavy water eats old copper from the inside. If you’re patching pinholes every year, each repair is a down payment on the next one — we’ll give you the honest math on repair vs. repipe.
Insurance Documentation
Photos, permits, inspection records, and completion letters — everything your insurance company needs to bind or renew coverage after a repipe. We’ve done this dance with every major Florida carrier.
The Polybutylene Problem — and Why Bonita Springs Has It
Bonita Springs boomed in exactly the wrong years. Polybutylene was the budget-friendly pipe of choice from roughly 1978 to 1995 — which is precisely when huge swaths of Bonita Springs were built. If your home dates from that era and has never been repiped, there’s a real chance the gray pipe is in your walls right now. Look behind the water heater or under a sink for gray plastic pipe, often stamped “PB2110.”
Florida insurers have lost patience with it. Polybutylene doesn’t leak — it ruptures, often without warning, and carriers have paid for enough flooded living rooms to act. Across Florida, insurers are declining new policies and non-renewing existing ones over poly pipe. If you’ve received one of those letters, the clock is real: a completed, documented repipe is what turns coverage back on.
Copper isn’t aging gracefully here either. Homes that skipped the poly era often have copper that’s been carrying our aggressive aquifer water for decades. The result is pinhole leaks — maddening, recurring, and each one a roll of the dice on how much drywall gets wet before you notice. Two pinholes in two years is our informal threshold for the repipe conversation.
Condos and villas repipe too. Attached homes in communities like Village Walk and the older villa neighborhoods have their own logistics — shared walls, association approvals, insurance certificates. We handle the HOA paperwork and schedule around community rules, same as we do for our water heater work in those buildings.
What Does a Repipe Actually Involve — and Cost?
The honest sequence: we map the existing system, run new PEX lines through the attic and walls with small, planned access openings, transfer every fixture over, pressure-test, call the inspection, and patch the drywall. Most Bonita Springs single-family homes are done in 2–4 working days, and you sleep at home with water on every night.
Cost scales with home size and fixture count — a villa is not a 4-bath estate home — so we quote fixed-price after a walkthrough, not from a phone script. What we can promise: the quote is firm, permits and inspection are included, and the drywall repair is part of the job, not a surprise afterthought.
Also see our full Bonita Springs plumbing services, PEX repiping for all of SWFL, and leak detection in Bonita Springs.
Bonita Springs Repiping FAQs
How do I know if my Bonita Springs home has polybutylene pipe?
Check the pipe coming out of your water heater and under sinks: polybutylene is gray (occasionally blue or black) flexible plastic, often stamped “PB2110.” Homes built 1978–1995 are the risk window. If you’re not sure, send us a photo — we’ll tell you in minutes.
My insurance company is threatening non-renewal over my pipes. Can you help?
Yes — this is now one of the most common reasons Bonita Springs homeowners call us. A completed, permitted repipe with our documentation package is what carriers want to see. We can usually schedule quickly when there’s an insurance deadline involved.
How long does a whole-home repipe take?
Most single-family homes: 2–4 working days. Water is restored every evening, and you live at home throughout. Larger homes and condos vary — you’ll get a schedule with your quote.
PEX or copper for the new pipes?
In Southwest Florida, PEX — it’s immune to the mineral-driven pinhole corrosion that kills copper here, it handles water hammer better, and fewer fittings mean fewer future failure points. We’ll discuss copper if you want it, but we’ll tell you honestly why most repipes here are PEX.
Does a repipe include fixing the drywall?
Ours does. Access openings are planned and minimal, and patching is part of the quoted job. Paint matching is the one thing we leave to your painter — we’re honest about that up front.
Is a permit required for repiping in Bonita Springs?
Yes, and you want it — the permit and passed inspection are exactly what your insurance carrier and future buyers will ask to see. We pull it and handle the inspection as part of every repipe.
TIME TO REPIPE YOUR BONITA SPRINGS HOME?
Polybutylene Replacement • Copper Pinhole Fixes • PEX Repipes — Permitted & Documented
McGrath Plumbing, Drains & Water Heaters of Bonita Springs • 8891 Brighton Ln Suite 103 Office #2 • FL Lic. CFC1432700
Or email: dave@mcgrathplumbingnaples.com