Aliante, Eldorado, Craig Ranch - North Las Vegas grew hard from 1998 to 2007, and a lot of that housing went in on Kitec.
Inspectors mis-flag it. We verify the pipe and fittings before a word about repiping.
We read the fittings and your situation, then tell you straight. Sometimes the answer is wait.
Two real numbers on your home, quoted straight - not a single take-it-or-leave-it figure.
North Las Vegas did most of its growing in a hurry. From roughly 1998 to 2007 the Aliante, Eldorado, and Craig Ranch areas filled in fast, and that construction boom rode right alongside Kitec’s years in the supply chain. The result is a broad swath of North Las Vegas housing plumbed with a pipe that’s now failing.
North Las Vegas isn’t one neighborhood, and that matters for Kitec. You’ve got the newer Del Webb and American West product in Aliante, older tracts around Craig Ranch, and a lot in between. So the odds your home has Kitec depend heavily on when and where it was built. A late-1990s Craig Ranch home and a 2006 Aliante home are different bets. We take the year and the tract seriously instead of painting the whole city with one brush.
Where it exists, it’s the same failure the rest of the valley is fighting. Kitec is PEX-AL-PEX joined with brass fittings. The brass loses zinc over time, a process called dezincification, and the weakened fitting cracks. Las Vegas hard water speeds it up. The leak happens inside the wall, quietly, until it doesn’t.
There’s no recall fund to tap. The Kitec settlement deadlines passed, so the repipe is on the owner. In North Las Vegas that generally means $5,000 to $15,000 to convert to copper or PEX-A, depending on the home’s size and layout.
What forces the issue here is usually one of two things. A sale, where an inspector flags Kitec and the buyer wants it dealt with. Or insurance, where a carrier declines to renew once Kitec is on the record. A common North Las Vegas case: a family that’s owned an Eldorado-area home for years gets a non-renewal letter and finds out for the first time what’s in their walls.
With the range of build years across North Las Vegas, confirmation is the first job. Some flagged homes aren’t actually on Kitec. We verify the pipe and fittings, then give you a real read. Licensed and insured Nevada plumbers, this work only.
Send us your inspection report and we’ll tell you if that Kitec flag is urgent.
Upload the report or a photo of the fittings. We confirm it is Kitec, tell you if that flag is urgent - and quote copper or PEX-A straight.