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I apparently don't have a whole house water shut off I can use. (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 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.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 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)