My dad is trying to find a plumber to reroute plumbing through an attic. It's for a elderly widow. Her late husband did everything and she has no idea on what today. She has been turning the water off and on when she needs it.

My dad has had three different people come look at it to get a quote and no one will return his calls.

Can anyone help ? Marion County.

I am no help . . . but be very careful about plumbing in an attic.

I know a guy (a senior mechanical engineer) who did that in Vicksburg.

Winter came and his pipes froze and burst in his attic. It was both a disaster and a lesson.

There’s a big house in town that had the attic plumbing let go and do tens of thousands of dollars damage. Water flows down hill(Rule #2 of The Plumber’s Three Rules of Plumbing). That said, maybe Luter’s Supply in Tylertown has some insight into a good plumber in the area. I can’t remember who we used back in 2013 or else I would pass their info along. I did go with PEX for all new plumbing and have had zero issues.

99% of new houses are piped through the attic. No one routes copper pipe in a slab any more. That method was bad on several levels.

Water piping in an attic using PEX is pretty much fool proof now, but just like everything else the quality of the install is the deciding factor.

PEX is not "freeze-proof", but it is much less like to burst if the pipe freezes. The weak spots in those cases is the fittings which on a normal install there are very few of.

@speechpathjunkie if your dad is having a hard time getting a plumber to call him back, it could be because either they are busy or the job itself is no good. Depends on what exactly the plumber is being told. Have him call them back and ask point blank why they don't want the work. Maybe the scope can be adjusted. It would be easier if the plumbers in question have an office, and not just a guy in a truck with a cell phone.