Check your water pipes before they burst
A pipe that bursts with no warning can destroy more than just your plumbing. Yet it happens fairly frequently with a certain type of pipe popular in some homes. Author: Niccole Caan (KENS 5) Published: 10:53 PM CST January 14, 2021 Updated: 10:02 AM CST January 15, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Kitec water pipes replaced copper pipes between 1995 to 2007. The three-layered plastic and aluminum pipes were thought to be more corrosion resistant than copper. It turns out that is not true. Kitec pipes usually don t just develop small leaks.
“This one seems to be bursting,” said Elmer Zubiate, owner of Elmer’s On Time Plumbing in San Antonio. “So it causes more damage than a regular pipe. The copper pipes they used, it would spring a pinhole leak. That right there wouldn’t cause as much damage as an actual burst pipe.”