What Kind of Pipe Do You Actually Have?
Start in the mechanical room, check several suites, and document mixed systems instead of assuming one visible pipe represents the whole building.
Resources
Start with the problem your building actually has.
These guides are organized by decision: identify the pipe, understand the project risk, compare approaches, prepare residents, then turn that information into a building-specific plan.
Learning library
Use these crawlable guides as a discovery hub into the material, risk, routing, preparation, and project questions that come up before an assessment.
Collection
Problem Guides
Material, age, fittings, hidden conditions, and previous repairs change the scope long before anyone starts opening walls.
What Asbestos Does to a Plumbing Project
The pipe may not contain asbestos. The walls, ceilings, insulation, flooring, or mechanical-room materials you disturb to reach it may still change the project.
Poly-B replacement
Understand the material problem, how to inventory a mixed system, and what a building-wide replacement plan needs to account for.
Kitec replacement
Look beyond pipe colour to fittings, manifolds, embedded runs, and the routing conditions that can change a Kitec scope.
Decision guides
Choose what you want to own afterward.
A repipe is not only a pipe-selection decision. Routing, access, restoration, future service, and occupied-building disruption all belong in the comparison.
The case for not burying your plumbing
Accessible routing changes what can be inspected, how future service is performed, and how much of the existing building has to be disturbed to install the replacement system.
Conventional vs. Plumbing Track
Compare where the pipe runs, how access is created, what gets restored, and when conventional in-wall work may still be the sensible choice.
How the Plumbing Track route works
See how a planned enclosed route, connection points, and finished enclosure turn accessible plumbing into a permanent building system.
See it in real buildings
Project proof and finished-installation details show what the system looks like after the construction work is gone.
Project & process guides
Make the occupied-building part predictable.
Access, communication, protection, water shutdowns, staging, and resident expectations are project work. They should be planned before the crew reaches the suite.
Resident & manager preparation guide
A practical checklist for clearing work areas, planning access, protecting belongings, communicating shutdowns, and preventing avoidable suite delays.
Detailed installation sequence
Follow the five-step sequence from assessment and building preparation through occupied installation, finishing, and handoff.
Occupied building repiping
See how preparation, active work, resident coordination, and finished handoff fit together when the building remains occupied.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the recurring questions that come up before an assessment and before a building-wide repipe begins.
Existing clients
Looking for project information?
The Client Portal remains available for buildings already using Plumbing Track project tools; it is separate from these educational guides.
Building-specific answer
Use the guides to get oriented. Contact us to make it specific.
A real scope starts with the building, existing material, occupancy, access constraints, and the route available for replacement.