Yes. We repipe both residential and commercial properties throughout Fredericksburg, Kerrville, and the surrounding Hill Country. The two are genuinely different jobs — different materials, different scheduling constraints, different code requirements — and we scope them separately rather than treating a building like a large house.

When a Building Needs Repiping

Repiping is warranted when the pipe material itself has reached the end of its service life, not when a single section fails. The distinction matters, because one is a system decision and the other is a water line repair.

The clearest indicators are repeat failures in different locations, water discoloration at multiple fixtures, pressure that has declined progressively across the whole property, and visible corrosion wherever pipe is accessible. If you have called for leak detection three times in two years and each visit found a different failure, the pipe is telling you something.

Materials We Replace Most Often

Older Hill Country properties tend to have one of a few problem materials.

Galvanized steel corrodes from the inside out. The interior diameter fills with rust scale, which is why pressure drops and water runs brown after the system sits. It cannot be reversed, and by the time symptoms appear the pipe wall is already thin.

Polybutylene, common in construction from the late seventies through the mid-nineties, becomes brittle and fails at fittings, often without warning. Insurers frequently take an interest in it.

Early copper installations can also suffer pinhole leaks where water chemistry, high velocity from undersized pipe, or poor grounding has been at work. Copper is a good material installed correctly, but it is not immune.

What We Repipe With

We use PEX and copper, chosen for the application rather than by default. PEX is flexible, resists freeze damage better than rigid pipe because it can expand somewhat before splitting, and requires fewer fittings — which means fewer potential failure points inside walls. Copper remains appropriate for certain exposed runs and specific commercial applications.

Freeze resistance is not a small consideration here. A meaningful share of the burst pipe repair and frozen pipe repair work we do involves attic runs that were routed without any thought to a hard freeze. A repipe is the opportunity to fix that routing permanently.

Commercial Repiping Is a Scheduling Problem

For a business, the technical work is the easy part. The hard part is doing it without shutting you down.

Our commercial plumbers phase the work so that portions of the building stay in service. That often means night and weekend work, zone-by-zone shutoffs rather than a building-wide one, and temporary provisions for critical fixtures. Restaurants, hotels, wineries, and medical offices each have their own constraints, and the schedule gets built around them.

Commercial work also carries permitting, inspection, and sometimes backflow requirements that residential work does not. We handle that paperwork rather than handing it to you.

What Gets Corrected Along the Way

A repipe is a chance to fix things that were wrong from the beginning. Undersized branch lines that starve a fixture when another one runs. Missing or inaccessible shutoff valves. Poor support that causes water hammer. Routing through unconditioned space.

We also check static pressure. If the incoming pressure is high — and in parts of the Hill Country it is — installing a new pressure reducing valve protects the pipe you just paid for, along with every appliance connected to it.

Getting an Accurate Scope

We start with a plumbing inspection that establishes what material you actually have, where it runs, and what condition it is in. Assumptions about a building’s plumbing are wrong often enough that we do not price work without looking.

From there you get a written scope, a schedule, and a fixed price. Everything is backed by our workmanship warranty, and financing is available for the residential and small-commercial range.

To have your plumbing system evaluated, contact 72 Degrees or call (830) 468-5316.