A plumber looked at your house and said the pipes are done for, and you'd like to know what a fair repipe estimate looks like before you commit to anyone. The tricky part is that two companies can quote the same job on the same house and be $2,000 to $5,000 apart. That's why it pays to have a company see your home in person. A visit is the only thing that turns a rough range into a single price they have to stand behind. A repipe estimate turns your price range into a fixed price. Call now, or send your house details and a repipe company contacts you. The figures here give you a sense of what a fair range should be for a home like yours.
Estimates by house size
What drives the price of a repipe is the size of the house and its bathroom count. Bedrooms don't matter. The numbers below assume an average US plumber's hourly rate, PEX pipe, a single floor, and a crawl space underneath. PEX is a bendable plastic pipe for water, colored red on the hot side and blue on the cold side. A crawl space is the low open area beneath a floor raised off the ground.
| Home | Baths | Cost range | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,200 sq ft | 1 | roughly $4,100–$7,700 | 2–3 days |
| 1,800 sq ft | 2 | roughly $6,400–$11,800 | 2–3 days |
| 2,400 sq ft | 3 | roughly $7,500–$14,400 | 3–4 days |
| 3,200 sq ft | 4 or more | roughly $10,600–$21,200 | 4–5 days |
A house on a slab costs more to repipe. With a slab, the concrete floor sits right on the ground and the pipes run beneath it or within it, which makes the job tougher. Take that 1,800 sq ft, 2-bath house from the table: on a slab it runs about $8,300 to $16,300, and with 2 floors about $7,000 to $13,200.
Your state and your choice of pipe move your range too, which is why no table can give you a final number. Call now and a repipe company that works in your area comes out, looks at the house, and gives you a fixed price.
Reading a repipe quote line by line
Sometimes two quotes look wildly different only because one of them omits things. Drywall repair often gets not included, and on its own it runs $300 to $1,500. Permit fees come to $50 to $800, per a national guide to repipe costs. Nearly every whole-house repipe requires a permit, so a quote missing one isn't actually the bargain it seems.
Run the same 4 questions past each company: does the price include the permit, does it include patching the walls, does it include the final inspection, and what does the warranty cover? As a point of reference, one specialist states that its quotes bundle wall patching, permits, a passed inspection, and a lifetime warranty. Every company you connect with through this site sees your house first and then names a fixed price.
How you pay for the job
Some repipe companies have 0% interest financing spread over 24 months. When you request your quote, get the complete payment terms along with it, so you can look at the total price and the monthly payments side by side before choosing.
Questions people ask
Why is a repipe pricier in some states?
Roughly 70% of the bill is labor, and plumber pay varies widely from state to state. An 1,800 sq ft, 2-bathroom PEX home costs roughly $5,400 to $9,900 in Florida, a state where the hourly plumber wage is $26.94. Head up to Washington, with its $42.69 hourly rate, and the same job lands near $7,400 to $13,700. Texas falls around $5,700 to $10,500, and California around $7,000 to $13,000.
Copper or PEX: what's the price difference?
Copper is soldered metal pipe. It costs more and slows the job down. If that crawl-space home with 1,800 sq ft and 2 baths were done in copper, you'd pay roughly $9,400 to $18,800 across 3 to 5 days. CPVC, a stiff cream or tan plastic pipe, lands around $7,400 to $12,800 across 2 to 3 days for the identical home.
Does the estimate include the pipe out to the street?
No. The house estimate covers only the pipes inside your home. For a 50-foot water line, this site's calculator estimates about $2,700 to $8,000 using a trench, or about $3,900 to $8,000 using a method called trenchless. Both estimates include a permit. If your street pipe is aging as well, ask the company to list it as a separate line.
Does the call cost anything?
No. The call is free. Call now, or send the short form with your name, phone, ZIP code, bathrooms and the pipe you have, and a repipe company that works in your area calls or texts you about your fixed price.