Solutions / Poly-B Replacement

Poly-B replacement for occupied buildings.

Aging polybutylene is a building-wide problem. The replacement plan has to deal with the pipe, the suites it passes through, and the amount of finished building that must be opened to reach it.

The problem

Do not let the next leak choose the project schedule.

Poly-B was widely installed in Canadian buildings from the late 1970s through the late 1990s. It can deteriorate internally while looking normal from the outside, which makes a building-wide replacement plan more useful than chasing failures one at a time.

The first step is to confirm what the building has, where it runs, and whether previous partial repairs have left a mixed system.

Confirm

Inventory the existing system.

Identify the Poly-B, previous replacements, risers, suite conditions, and the areas that will shape the scope.

Plan

Treat it as one capital project.

Turn recurring failures into one coordinated project.

Replace

Keep the new route accessible.

Plumbing Track uses an enclosed replacement route designed around existing finishes instead of automatically burying the new system again.

Plumbing Track route installed above cabinets in an occupied home
A building-wide replacement still has to respect the rooms residents live in.

The replacement context

Map the system without losing sight of the home.

The material problem is only the beginning. Scope also has to account for finished surfaces, access, sequence, and the route the new system will take.

Alberta & British Columbia

Turn the material problem into a building plan.

Plumbing Track supports multifamily Poly-B replacement from its Calgary and Kelowna service areas. For boards and property managers comparing Poly-B in Calgary, Poly-B in Alberta, Poly-B in BC, or Poly-B in Kelowna, the useful next step is the same: confirm the material, map the route, and scope the replacement around the occupied building.

Service-area conversations still start with the real building: material, route, access, occupancy, and the project conditions that shape the replacement plan.