Rhodes Homes built this guard-gated southwest golf community from about 1997 to 2006 - dead center in the Kitec era.
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.
Rhodes Ranch is a guard-gated golf community in the southwest valley, and it was built by Rhodes Homes across a tight window, roughly 1997 to 2006. That window sits dead center in the Kitec era. So while Rhodes Ranch feels like a distinct, self-contained community behind its gate, its plumbing has the same problem as the rest of the valley’s turn-of-the-century construction.
Because Rhodes Homes built most of Rhodes Ranch, there’s more consistency here than in a mixed-builder area. When a builder used Kitec on a run of homes in a given year, neighbors in the same phase often share the same plumbing. That cuts both ways. It means a Kitec flag on one home makes a lot of sense for the community, and it means owners here sometimes hear about it from a neighbor first, before their own inspection ever names it.
The pipe is Kitec PEX-AL-PEX with brass fittings. The fittings fail by dezincification, where zinc leaches out of the brass and the fitting cracks and leaks. Las Vegas hard water accelerates it, and Rhodes Ranch is on that same supply. The leaks happen behind drywall.
A common pattern here: a Rhodes Ranch owner going to sell or refinance gets the home inspected, and the report calls out Kitec. The buyer, or the lender’s process, wants clarity on it before moving forward. Suddenly a homeowner who never had a leak is deciding on a repipe under a deadline.
The settlement money is gone, so it’s out of pocket. A Rhodes Ranch repipe to copper or PEX-A generally runs $5,000 to $15,000 depending on the model and how the home was framed. The community’s homes vary in size, so the number varies with them.
Before anything, we confirm the home is really on Kitec. Some inspections flag it on a hunch, and a prior owner may have already repiped part of the house. We verify the actual system, then give you a straight answer on how urgent it is. Licensed and insured in Nevada, Kitec evaluation and repipe only.
Send us your inspection report and we’ll tell you if that Kitec flag is urgent. If a sale or refinance is driving the timeline, say so and we’ll move accordingly.
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.