Hansville: My Copper Pipes Keep Getting Pinhole Leaks

Why this happens in Hansville

The most common cause we find in Hansville is water chemistry. Slightly aggressive water dissolves copper from the inside over decades. On Point No Point and Twin Spits cabin lots with gravel at Point No Point underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check age, because in Hansville it explains a real share of pinhole leaks in copper calls. Copper from the 1960s and 70s has been in service for half a century, and thin spots fail first.

Don't overlook velocity erosion. Undersized hot lines or a recirculation pump wear the pipe at elbows and tees. On Hansville properties from 1950s beach cabins expanded over decades it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Upland acreage lines are long HDPE pulls through till.

Before we arrive in Hansville, three things you can do: do the meter test to catch the current leak if there is one. Note whether the pinholes are all on the hot side. Look at exposed copper in the crawlspace for green-blue staining or earlier patches. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us close and document faster on wooded parcels along Twin Spits Road.

What happens next

Fixing pinhole leaks in copper here usually ends with whole-house repipe near the Greenway: close and document with water heater connections and, abandon or remove old lines on the Driftwood Key lagoon community, run new lines. One crew, one visit, trenches that fill as they're dug put back the way it was.

We've handled pinhole leaks in copper near Point No Point where the cause was a mix of materials from decades of additions, and near Foulweather Bluff where till and roots on the Hansville Road uplands was hiding a drain failure. About forty minutes to the north tip; we schedule Hansville so you aren't waiting a whole day.