Contractors in Calgary who state Poly-B replacement and repiping on their own website. Polybutylene supply pipe was used in homes built from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s and fails with age.
38 listings state this work · 17 answer around the clock
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Listings whose hours say someone picks up at night — the only question that matters at 3am in January.
| # | Contractor | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pete the Plumber | 4.51,724 reviews on Google |
| 2 | TipTop Plumbing & Heating | 4.71,168 reviews on Google |
| 3 | Ace Plumbing and Heating | 4.6743 reviews on Google |
| 4 | Sterling Plumbing & Gas | 5.0204 reviews on Google |
| 5 | Jack Dish Plumbing & Heating | 4.996 reviews on Google |
| — | Typical listing here | 5.0median across 37 rated listings |
Volume, not score. A long record is the one thing that separates the many listings sharing a perfect rating.
| # | Contractor | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pete the Plumber | 1,7244.5 on Google |
| 2 | TipTop Plumbing & Heating | 1,1684.7 on Google |
| 3 | Ace Plumbing and Heating | 7434.6 on Google |
| 4 | Canyon Plumbing & Heating Ltd | 5224.5 on Google |
| 5 | Caledonian Plumbing And Heating Ltd | 3355.0 on Google |
| — | Typical listing here | 57median across 37 rated listings |
Not an emergency until it leaks — but an active leak in Poly-B rarely stays small, so treat a weeping fitting as this week rather than next month.
General guidance, not advice for your specific situation. We do not publish cost estimates: almost no contractor here lists their rates publicly, so any figure we printed would be a guess you might plan around. Ask two of them.
This page lists firms whose own website names this work. 244 further listings have told us nothing about their services — they may well do it too. Browse every Calgary listing.
Polybutylene is a grey flexible plastic water pipe used widely in Canadian homes built from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Look at the pipe entering your hot water tank or at exposed runs in the basement: grey plastic with printed markings, rather than copper or white PEX, is the thing to have checked.
It is no longer certified or installed for potable water here, but existing pipe in a house is not illegal and nobody is required to remove it. The pressure to replace it comes from insurers and from buyers, not from a prohibition.
Practice varies by insurer, and some now surcharge, exclude water damage from it, or decline to write a policy at all until it is replaced. This is a question for the company that wrote your policy, and worth asking before you decide on the work rather than after.
Not necessarily, and a partial repipe is sometimes staged around a renovation that already has walls open. But a partial job usually leaves the insurance question unanswered, so if that is your reason for doing it, ask what the insurer will accept before you agree to a scope.