Many homes here were built in the era when galvanized steel was standard, and galvanized rusts shut from the inside over decades, which shows up as falling pressure, rusty water, and leaks that can keep coming once the first one starts. If that sounds like your house, you're not unlucky. It's common with pipe that age.
The repipe question is really a timing question, and the timing should come from evidence. One leak in an old system is a repair. Leaks that keep turning up across the system mean the pipe is wearing out as a whole, and fixing it one leak at a time keeps costing money on pipe that's near the end. The evaluation looks at your actual pipes, their material, their condition and their history, and gives you a clear answer, including that you're not there yet, when that's true. Nobody should be sold a repipe. Some houses just need the real numbers laid out.
When the time is right, this is what it actually means. New lines throughout, modern PEX or copper, with walls opened where needed. Every step explained in plain English before it happens, every cost and tradeoff laid out, the decision yours at your pace, a licensed contractor performing the work when you say go. After 60 years in the walls, it makes sense to plan the replacement on your schedule instead of waiting for a failure.
