On Monday, April 7, 2014 4:12:45 PM UTC-4, CRNG wrote:
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:46:42 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"

wrote in



Our water line from the township's shutoff to the house* is polyethylene

and has sprung a leak. The quote to replace it with PEX is $1475; copper

would be about $500 more.



The plumber said PEX should be good for 20 years or more; the guy from

the township who came to shut off the water said they still use copper.



Any informed opinions here about which we should choose?



*Actually about 6ft from the house: that much of the poly pipe was

replaced by copper about six years ago when we had water trickling down

the inside of our basement wall.



Perce



Why not stick with black poly? Can't the leaking spot be repaired? I

would guess that the leak is at a fitting that can just be replaced.

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For what it's worth, here in the NJ suburbs they've been using
the black poly for decades as the preferred method. It's lasted
30 years here in my house, IDK of any neighbors with any problems
and it;s all that I see going into new construction. I wonder if
this was a bad lot, some cheap crap, etc. I'd have no issues using
it today.