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What Era Is Your North Richland Hills Home?

If your home was built before 1960, it likely has galvanized steel supply lines. That pipe corrodes from the inside over decades, showing up as low water pressure and rust-tinged water long before it fails outright.

If your home dates to the 1970s through the 90s, the concern is different. A lot of NRH homes from this era have polybutylene supply piping, a plastic pipe material that’s no longer installed anywhere because it turns brittle and fails without much warning. Cast iron drain lines from the same period corrode and crack, leading to the kind of recurring clogs and backups a plunger won’t touch.

Newer NRH construction, including development near the Davis Boulevard corridor, uses PEX and CPVC piping. It’s more flexible than older materials, but it can still fail at fittings and joints, especially where ground movement from the area’s clay soil puts stress on connections near the slab.

Across every era, North Texas’s climate adds its own pressure. Hot, dry summers followed by wetter stretches shift the clay under and around your foundation year after year, and on the rare occasion of a hard freeze, like the widespread pipe failures during Winter Storm Uri, older homes with attic-run water heater lines or exposed garage copper are the first to show damage.