House being e-piped monday...concerns?

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Due to the chitty piping in our house (5 pipe leaks in 10 years) we are having our house e-piped monday. what they do is inject an epoxy resin into the existing copper pipes to coat the insides to stop any current leaks and in theory prevent future leaks. Its done in many industrial applications and apartment complexes frequently it cures, and good to go. its like installing a liner in existing pipework and is less invasive than an entire repipe job, and has a 10+ year warranty. making water for the 2 to 4 days wont have any water, but should I have any concerns after? have a 7 stage ro/di unit with spectrapure membrane and name brand filters and 0.5 micron carbon and chloramine blocks b4 3 stage di resin.
 

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I mean we use epoxy in our tanks for rock structures. And your rodi should in theory catch majority of what goes through your rodi, maybe change out your prefilter and carbon blocks after a 100 gallons of water made up
 
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Why not just get pex tubing installed. After our 4th slab leak in 3 years. I just had the house re-piped with pex tubing. It was $7k but well worth it. Came with 40y warranty and warranty was transferrable. The original quote was $10k but I saved $3k by doing all the patching and painting afterwards. I just took a week vacation after the hose was re-piped. Had the patching and painting done in the week and it cost me $600 in paint and supplies. I ended up just re-painting the whole house with a modern color, not the off white the painters were going to do.
 

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Why not just get pex tubing installed. After our 4th slab leak in 3 years. I just had the house re-piped with pex tubing. It was $7k but well worth it. Came with 40y warranty and warranty was transferrable. The original quote was $10k but I saved $3k by doing all the patching and painting afterwards. I just took a week vacation after the hose was re-piped. Had the patching and painting done in the week and it cost me $600 in paint and supplies. I ended up just re-painting the whole house with a modern color, not the off white the painters were going to do.
Who did your re-pipe?
 

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I used R & R Plumbing based out of Tamecula. They were recommended by our plumber that fixed our other three slab leaks. Granted this was close to 5 years back.
Thanks for the info. Going to get my house re-piped and I’m still deciding on copper or Pex.


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So process "complete"...there was 4 leaks found after the epoxy coating, that were repaired all in 90 fittings, but there is still a coldwater leak, small but detected by air pressure drop. they have not been able to find as its small, even with the high tech leak equipment, so on leak watch. will be repaired free once found for next 10 years, so watching for waterspots everywhere in house. 3 leaks found after epoxy liner were hot water, one cold
 
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so with repairs to and including these, thats 9 leaks fixed/found total, one to be found, only 1 was not in a 90 fitting
 

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so with repairs to and including these, thats 9 leaks fixed/found total, one to be found, only 1 was not in a 90 fitting
Wow, that’s disappointing. You have galvanized or copper?


sorry I missed this thread but I would have taken the RO unit off line for a day or two and flushed the system out first.
 

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