Plumber in Myers Park, Charlotte: Original Pipe
Plumber in Myers Park, Charlotte
Myers Park is an early-20th-century neighborhood: it was developed after 1911, with Bungalow, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses. Many of those houses have been renovated in stages, so one house can hold pipe from several decades.
Original pipe and later additions
The age of each part of the house tells the plumber what to expect:
- The original house may still have cast-iron drain and vent stacks, which were commonly used before 1960, and galvanized supply pipe. Galvanized steel is strong but lasts only about 50 years.
- An addition or renovated bath is more likely to be plastic: most homes built since the mid-1970s have plastic pipe.
So say where the problem is. Low pressure in the original rooms points at the old supply pipe, because rust and scale inside galvanized pipe can significantly restrict water flow; see whole-home repiping. A slow drain in an old stack is a cleaning job first; see drain cleaning.
Plumbing permits for Myers Park come from Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement, as anywhere in the county.
Why can a Myers Park house have more than one kind of pipe?
Because the house is older than its renovations. The original part may have cast iron and galvanized pipe; additions from the mid-1970s on usually have plastic.
Should a Myers Park addition be plumbed as a new run?
Only when the plumber finds that the original pipe cannot serve it. Tying a new bath into scaled galvanized pipe does not fix the pressure problem.
Next step
Say whether the problem is in the original house or an addition, and what pipe you can see at the water heater. We check whether a local plumber can take the job.