Poly B pipe replacement in Stittsville

Bryanston Gate, Fringewood, Crossing Bridge, Village core — and the rest of Stittsville. If the house went up before about 1998 and nobody has repiped it, the grey pipe is worth finding before your insurer finds it first.

Why Stittsville in particular

The village core and the 1980s and 1990s subdivisions around Bryanston Gate, Fringewood and Crossing Bridge fall inside the Poly B window; Jackson Trails and the newer Fernbank developments are well clear of it. Stittsville also has a good number of homes that were on private wells before municipal servicing, which changes the degradation story slightly — less chlorine exposure — but not the fittings, which age regardless.

Because Stittsville sits at the western edge of the city, travel time occasionally shows up in pricing. Checking whether travel is built into the quote matters a little more here than it does downtown.

What a Stittsville repipe usually involves

New PEX from the main shut-off to every fixture, the old grey lines removed or abandoned, everything reconnected and pressure tested, a city plumbing inspection while the pipe is still visible, and then the drywall. Two to three days of plumbing for a bungalow with an open basement; four to six for a larger two-storey. Drywall, primer and paint follow, often the next week.

For the full sequence, read what a repipe week is actually like. For numbers, see the Ottawa cost ranges.

Before you book anything

1. Confirm what you actually have. Grey and flexible with a crimped copper ring is Poly B. Orange and blue with brass fittings is Kitec, which is a different conversation with the same ending.
2. Email your insurance broker and ask, in writing, whether the policy limits water-damage coverage because of the supply piping and what changes if you replace it.
3. Get the scope described in writing, and check whether drywall repair is in or out of the price.

Contractors we refer to in Stittsville

Companies that hold an Ontario plumbing licence, carry liability and WSIB coverage, take whole-home repiping as regular work rather than as a favour between service calls, and call homeowners back the same day. We send your details to one of them — whichever suits your house and timeline — and they pay us for the introduction, not you. The full disclosure.