"Dick" LeadWinger wrote in message

I don't see it as any big deal. I bought a long sprinkler shut-off
tool from Home Depot. If I need to turn off the water, I just pop off
the meter box cover near the street and turn the water off. Would
take me just as long if the shut-off were next to the house.


It is not a big deal if everything works OK. When you have to do a repair
at night, in the cold, in the rain or when something lets lose, finding that
shut-off tool can take an agonizingly long time. I want to be able to do it
quickly, from inside the house.