1 · Conventional
Open the building to reach the route.
Traditional repiping follows concealed cavities. That can mean opening finished ceilings and walls wherever access is required, then coordinating the restoration that follows.
About Plumbing Track
We built it because the old way asked too much of the building.
Plumbing Track grew out of firsthand experience repiping occupied multifamily buildings. The pipe was rarely the hardest part. Getting to it, rebuilding everything afterward, and asking residents to live through the process was.
Where it started
Paul wanted to finish a repipe. The project became the reason to rethink repiping.
One of the early projects behind Plumbing Track was a 56-unit building with Kitec. It was handled conventionally: sixteen people on site, ceilings and walls opened so crews could chase piping through the structure, and roughly eight months of work.
By the end, the lesson was difficult to ignore. Replacing the plumbing was only one part of the job. Much of the time, labour and disruption came from gaining access and putting occupied homes back together afterward.
The next 56-unit Kitec building of the same type started the same way. After the track was introduced mid-project, the on-site crew dropped from sixteen people to nine. Later 56-unit track work is running with about four people and is on track for about six months.
Crew and time from the jobs we have numbers for
Conventional vs Plumbing Track
- 12 fewer people on a 56-unit job
- About 2 months faster on the comparable 56-unit job
People on site
16
Conventional · 7 + 9
4
Plumbing Track now
Time on the job
8 mo.
Conventional
~6 mo.
Plumbing Track
The turning point
What if the new plumbing did not have to disappear behind the ceiling?
The idea was not to leave pipe exposed. It was to give the replacement system a planned route that could be finished as part of the room.
2 · The idea
Give the new plumbing its own planned route.
On the next project, Paul tried running new lines through a track mounted beneath the existing ceiling rather than burying the entire replacement system behind finished surfaces.
3 · The system
Develop the route around real occupied buildings.
The system was refined through actual installations, with the route, enclosure and finishing details shaped by existing rooms, resident access and the realities of working in multifamily buildings.
From idea to product
Real rooms shaped the system.
Plumbing Track was incorporated originally as Kitrax Restoration Group in 2021 and developed over successive generations in real buildings. Today the company works across Calgary, Kelowna and surrounding regions on occupied multifamily repiping.
See how the system works ›What guides the work
Protect the building without treating residents like an afterthought.
Our mission is to deliver minimally disruptive repiping solutions that protect residents, property owners and the long-term value of the building.
Plan around occupied homes.
The system is designed around keeping residents in their homes while the project moves through the building.
Solve the building problem, not just today's leak.
Replacement work should be approached as long-term building infrastructure rather than a temporary patch.
Think about the next service call now.
A planned, accessible route changes what future maintenance can require from the finished building.
Remove unnecessary construction, not necessary steps.
Efficiency comes from changing how the route is installed and finished, not from skipping the work that makes the system complete.
Dragons' Den
We put the idea in front of a national pitch process.
Plumbing Track advanced through the Dragons' Den selection process to third-round interviews. We were not ultimately selected to appear on the show.
What mattered to us was that a national pitch panel kept asking to see more of a specialized multifamily repiping system. It was an early outside signal that the problem—and the approach we had built around it—was worth explaining clearly.
“Conventional methods are gone. We had to move on, so we built a better solution.”Paul Jahn · Founder
Our team
Project leadership behind the system.
Paul Jahn
Paul's experience running conventional multifamily repipes led directly to the development of Plumbing Track. He remains closely involved in assessments, project planning and the work happening inside buildings.
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