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Ok, totally lost me on that. Nothing much the yellow pages, water well drilling yeilds a couple results, but nothing about directional boring in those. One result for foundation drilling. A google search for my area only brings up Asplundh in the results. Any of those sound right?
What would I be asking them?
Ok, totally lost me on that. Nothing much the yellow pages, water well drilling yeilds a couple results, but nothing about directional boring in those. One result for foundation drilling. A google search for my area only brings up Asplundh in the results. Any of those sound right?
What would I be asking them?
Google "directional boring" + your town and state. I found a few around Knoxville. Get a price from them. The water well driller might be able to help you. I have a machine but, do not use it much.
It is unlikely that they will remove the old pipes. They have to rip up your walls to do that. It is too expensive to repair the walls. Usually the old pipes are left in place and the PEX is threated through alongside with a minimum amount of ruipping open the walls. That is the beauty of PEX.
By the way, find out whether the bids include retoring your walls to a paintable condition. If not, the differenc ein price is irrelevant, find the guy who will do the least damage. It could easily cost as much to restore the walls and rapint/re-paper as the entire plumbing job. In our house, even with PEX, the cost of restoring damaged plaster and re-painting was considerably more than the cost of the plumbing job. In our prior old house the re-plumbing hardly did any damage to the walls at all, but there they were able to run some pipes outside becuase in California things do nto freeze.
By the way, I dwould go with connecting PEX to the existing copper. You will have far less damage and disruption to your life.
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