For a 1,800-square-foot Kansas house with two bathrooms, one floor, and a crawl space, a PEX repipe costs about $6,400 to $11,700. One call reaches a local repipe firm, and it gives you a fixed price after it sees your house. Kansas plumbers earn $34.33 an hour on average, close to the US average of $34.70, and labor accounts for about 70% of a repipe bill. Kansas homes skew old: about a third were built before 1960, when galvanized steel pipe was common, and many from 1980 to 1999 may have polybutylene or Kitec.
Why do older Kansas houses tend to need new pipes?
The typical Kansas home was built in 1976, which ranks 13th oldest among the 50 states and DC. That age makes it worth checking for older pipe types, especially galvanized steel in the oldest homes.
About 32.3% of Kansas homes date from before 1960, an era when galvanized steel was a common choice for water pipe, per the Census Bureau. A further 22.6 % went up between 1980 and 1999. Those years overlap the polybutylene era (1978 to 1995) and the first years of Kitec (1995 to 2007). Only 21.8 % of homes date from 2000 or later.
Once low pressure, discolored water, or leaks appear in more than one spot around the house, a repipe is usually worth it, a national guide says.
Prices by house size
These Kansas estimates come from this site's calculator. Each one assumes PEX running over a crawl space, meaning the open area beneath a raised floor.
| House | Rough price |
|---|---|
| 1,200 sq ft, one bathroom | between $4,100 and $7,600 |
| 1,800 sq ft, two bathrooms | between $6,400 and $11,700 |
| 2,400 sq ft, three bathrooms, two floors | $8,100 to $16,000 |
The calculator uses bathrooms and square footage, not bedrooms. A three-bedroom home often has two bathrooms.
What do slab, copper, and CPVC jobs cost?
A slab means a concrete floor poured straight onto the ground, with pipe running underneath or inside it. Getting to that pipe means extra labor, so a 1,800 sq ft, 2-bath house on a slab climbs to roughly $8,300 to $16,200.
Copper, a metal pipe joined with solder, pushes that house up to roughly $9,300 to $18,700. CPVC, a stiff cream or tan plastic pipe, lands around $7,300 to $12,700.
What should a quote include?
Because labor is most of the bill, wages where you live matter a lot. A national guide says two bids for the same job can land $2,000 to $5,000 apart, so a fixed price after someone sees your house is worth having.
Permit fees can run $50 to $800, so before you sign, ask whether they're included in the quoted price.
Staying home while the work happens
Most families never leave home while the repipe is underway, one repipe company says. At US average labor, the calculator puts a 1,800 sq ft, 2-bath PEX job at about 2 to 3 days of work.
Checking a plumber's license in Kansas
In Kansas, your local city or county building department handles plumber licensing. Before any work begins, check the plumber's license with that office.
Plumbing rules are left to cities in Kansas
There's no statewide building code for homes in Kansas. Where you live sets the repipe rules, since the state allows each local area to choose its own code. A city can adopt a model code by reference in its own local law. In practice, your city or county building office picks the plumbing code and handles any permit or inspection.
Only about 5 in 100 Kansans use a private well, not public water. Around 15 percent is the national rate, so most homes in Kansas get water from a water system.
Which pipe is in your house?
This site's pipe identifier can tell eight pipe types apart by sight and touch, whether that's polybutylene, Kitec, copper, PEX, galvanized steel, CPVC, cast iron, or Orangeburg. In an older Kansas house, it's a quick way to see whether you have galvanized steel, polybutylene or Kitec.
Get a fixed price for your home
Weak pressure, discolored water or leaks in more than one spot usually mean a repipe is worth it. Call now: it costs nothing and puts you in touch with a local repipe firm. They'll see your house and give you a fixed price, so you know the real number before anything starts.
