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I apparently don't have a whole house water shut off I can use. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an odd one. The only whole house shut off is on the city side of my meter and the person from public works I talked to said only the city could operate it and if it were to break while I operated it I could be held financially liable.

Does anyone know of a ballpark price to get a plumber to install on my side of the meter?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a water softener? Usually that's the first ingress point into your house, even before the hot water heater (normally). Most of those will have a shutoff value near it. It won't get your outside faucets but at least it'll get everything in your house.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is great info. I’m basically in OPs same situation and I do have a water softener. I will be checking this out tomorrow for sure…

Thanks 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just shut the water off at the street and put a shutoff on your main before it enters the house. Worth doing if you ever have a need for it should ideally be right before a hose bib so you can drain your line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Water softeners often don't have a shutoff valve. The valve on them is a bypass valve. Water will still flow, just not through the softener.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on where/how it was installed. Code where I was at required a shut off right before it, independent of the bypass (and I almost called out the bypass on my original post to account for that)