Is there an easy way to find the water cutoff for my house?

"Bill" wrote in message
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Is there an easy way to find the water cutoff for my house?

Follow the pipe that feeds the water. Look for a lump in hte pipe with a
handle on top.

On 31 Dec 2005 12:22:44 -0800, "Bill" wrote:

| Is there an easy way to find the water cutoff for my house?
|

Usually right inside the house near the spot where the main water pipe
enters through the wall.

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:24:06 +0000, Cue wrote:

Is there an easy way to find the water cutoff for my house?

Usually right inside the house near the spot where the main water pipe
enters through the wall.

Of course, he won't know where that is either... Kinda makes you wonder
how some people even make it into adulthood, doesn't it?

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| Is there an easy way to find the water cutoff for my house?

Usually right inside the house near the spot where the main water pipe
enters through the wall.

And just past the water meter. The water company doesn't want you messing
with the pipe on their side of the meter, but there should be a cutoff just
inside your side of the meter, to be sure it can cut off all the water. Is
the pipe buried or something? Have you looked where the pipe comes into
your house? It should be there. (If your water has been cut off and you
need to find the water company's underground valve for some reason, it's
probably in a hole in the ground in your front yard; Home Depot might have
the six-foot (or so) wrench that turns that underground valve.)

"Bill" wrote in message
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Is there an easy way to find the water cutoff for my house?


I found a the shut off valve in the middle of a front lawn once. Old house
never understood why it would be there, maybe a valve instead of a coupling.

2 different states I've lived in had no separate shut off. The
shut off was the curb box. Some have a hex bolt, others use a
flag shaped skeleton key like this:
http://www.jimslimstools.com/detail.aspx?ID=7010

The flagged key is often on one end of a long t shaped shut off
wrench.

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