Your pipes are failing. Know what that means before you fund the fix.
Everest BCG delivers independent cast iron assessments for Florida condos and HOAs. Our licensed engineers investigate the system, document its condition, and issue a signed report your board can plan, fund, and bid from. We never perform the replacement we evaluate.
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Florida condominium and multifamily cast iron sanitary systems built pre-1990s are reaching the end of their serviceable life, and the failures rarely announce themselves.
They surface as recurring backups, one leak inside a unit, another repair the following year, and eventually a board asking whether the whole system needs replacement and how it could possibly know.
Everest Building Consulting Group answers that question with engineering evidence. We investigate the system, document its condition, and deliver a signed engineering report a board can plan, fund, and competitively bid from.
We assess and report. We never perform the pipe replacement we evaluate, so our findings and our estimate answer to the evidence and to the association, not to a scope of work we would be paid to carry out.
Cast iron drainage pipe corrodes from the inside out at the surface exposed to sanitary discharge. As corrosion progresses, scale and tuberculation roughen the interior, choke the bore, and trap the grease and solids the system carries.
Because the piping is concealed within walls, floors, and ceilings across occupied units, a breach can discharge into the building assembly long before it appears at a finished surface.
The report is built to serve a capital decision, not to sell a repair. Each conclusion is documented and reasoned rather than asserted.
The right time to get engineering involved is before the board funds another round of reactive repairs or commits to replacement on a contractor's estimate.
Repeated sanitary backups often indicate interior restriction, scale, and system deterioration rather than isolated bad luck.
A leak inside one unit may be the visible point of a concealed failure mechanism that exists across the building.
Mixed PVC and cast iron repairs of unknown, unmapped composition can make the next piecemeal decision harder to defend.
Before replacement is funded, the board needs a system-level condition opinion and a planning estimate grounded in engineering.
A dedicated coordinator documents the property's history, pattern of prior repairs and complaints, and any existing inspection records.
Engineers and technicians document the system through direct field observation, in-pipe camera survey, a property-wide census of roof penetrations and stack configuration, and photographic documentation of prior repairs and exposed assemblies.
The condition and distribution of deterioration are tested against the failure mechanism producing it under recognized forensic engineering methodology.
We generate the engineering analysis and report on the findings. You receive a signed engineering report documenting system condition, material configuration, and prior repair history to a reasonable degree of engineering certainty.
The report evaluates targeted repair, rehabilitation in place such as cured-in-place lining, and full replacement against observed condition and code provisions.
Where replacement is indicated, Everest develops a planning-level quantity and cost estimate for reserves and competitive bidding.
The report is the product, and it is built to serve a board making a capital decision, not to sell a repair.
The same neutral engineering record can support the board vote, the management recommendation, the reserve study, and the legal position without changing shape for each audience.
A board carries a fiduciary duty to make a defensible capital decision. An independent engineering report gives you the evidentiary basis for a replacement decision and a reserve figure grounded in engineering rather than a single contractor's estimate.
A neutral, signed report gives you a document you can put in front of a board with confidence, a defined scope for competitive procurement, and an engineer of record available through the project rather than only at the report stage.
A conflict-free engineering record, prepared and signed by a licensed PE, supports reserve decisions, developer or prior-contractor disputes, and any matter where condition and cause must be established and withstand scrutiny.
A defensible condition assessment and planning-level quantity basis supports reserve study inputs and capital planning, developed independently of the contractors who would perform the work.
Repairing each failure as it surfaces is the natural response, and for a while it may be the correct one. But in a system that has reached the end of its life, that approach establishes the condition of the location repaired and nothing beyond it.
Each repair addresses the pipe that failed while concealed piping of the same age and exposed to the same mechanism continues to deteriorate unmeasured. Repeated partial intervention can accumulate the disturbance and cost of replacement without ever producing a replaced system.
An independent assessment lets a board see the whole system at once and decide on evidence. It also gives every bidder a common, defensible scope to price against.
Everest brings engineering, sanitary-system knowledge, estimating, and occupied multifamily experience into one repeatable evidence-driven methodology.
Florida-licensed Professional Engineers directing every assessment and signing every report.
Credentialed specialists who understand sanitary systems from installation through failure, applied here strictly to diagnosis and never to the repair.
A standardized, evidence-driven methodology consistent with recognized forensic engineering practice and industry standards.
Experience across occupied condominium and multifamily properties, where access, sequencing, and resident impact govern how the work must be approached.
Xactimate-grounded estimating that translates the engineering scope into a reserve basis and a common footing for competitive bids.
Everest performs the engineering and does not perform the replacement, which is the structural condition that keeps the report and the estimate neutral.
Straight answers for boards, community association managers, counsel, and reserve teams deciding whether an independent cast iron assessment makes sense.
Before your association funds another round of reactive repairs or commits to replacement on a contractor's estimate, get an independent engineering assessment of the cast iron system: the condition, the remaining service life, the right response, and a reserve basis you can bid from. Reach our team to start the evaluation.