Author: Diego Barreto

Thousand Oaks grew up in a hurry. Drive through many of its neighborhoods and you will find tracts of homes built in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, along with a scattering of ranch-era properties that predate them. Those houses have plenty of life left in them, but the plumbing buried inside their walls, under their floors, and beneath their slabs was installed when the materials of the day were considered perfectly adequate. Decades later, many of those same pipes are at or beyond the end of their service life, and the repair bills start arriving one small leak at a time. Repiping is the point where homeowners stop chasing failures and replace the system as a whole. Why Older Thousand Oaks Homes Are Prone to Pipe Failure The story usually begins with the material. Homes built before rough...