This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in the
basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Mine is in the parking strip between the sidewalk and street.

Default User wrote:
This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in the
basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

From: "Default User" lid


This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in the
basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Check in the small bedroom, in the closet under the trap door. May have to
remove carpet.

Default User wrote:

This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in
the basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Could be anywhere from the street to your back bedroom.
One person knows: Call the utility.

Jim

slab floor. No trap door, do not remove carpet.

I would expect it to be at the meter pit.

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"HA HA Budys Here" wrote in message
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From: "Default User" lid


This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main
water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not
in the
basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Check in the small bedroom, in the closet under the trap door.
May have to
remove carpet.

Halvey wrote:
Default User wrote:
This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in
the basement where most guides tell you to look.

Mine is in the parking strip between the sidewalk and street.


The only possibility in the front yard would be the water meter access.
I haven't looked down in there, worth trying tomorrow. I think that
cover comes off without a special tool.




Brian

HA HA Budys Here wrote:

From: "Default User" lid


This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in
the basement where most guides tell you to look.

Check in the small bedroom, in the closet under the trap door. May
have to remove carpet.


I'm guessing this is joke.



Brian

"Default User" wrote in message
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This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in the
basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Other posters are correct there is a cutoff in the meter box.

On slab homes the main inside cutoff is usually near the water heater.
Follow the cold pipe backwards from the heater to the wall or floor that is
where it usually is. There is also a cutoff close to where the cold enters
the heater that shuts off only the hot water.

Colbyt

"Speedy Jim" wrote in message
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Default User wrote:

This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in
the basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Could be anywhere from the street to your back bedroom.
One person knows: Call the utility.

The utility won't know where the cut-off is inside the house.

There will be one on the street, but locally, you aren't supposed to use
that one. It's against the law.

wrote in message
Why is it against the law?
Back when I lived in the city, I once had a crappy plastic water meter
snap off.

Not that most people have the tool, but what are people supposed to
do, let the house flood? I'd think it would be MORE illegal NOT to
shut it off if a tool was available. I'd call that insurance fraud.


Mark
Under the circumstances, you did the right thing. Problem is, many people
would shut off the water, remove or bypass the meter and save a few bucks.
Same reason your electric meter is sealed.
Ed

Parking strip is utility valve and ours is at the corner of the house
nearest the utility valve, water heater is in diagonal corner.

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:58:06 -0400, "Colbyt"
wrote:


"Default User" wrote in message
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This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in the
basement where most guides tell you to look.



Brian

Other posters are correct there is a cutoff in the meter box.

On slab homes the main inside cutoff is usually near the water heater.
Follow the cold pipe backwards from the heater to the wall or floor that is
where it usually is. There is also a cutoff close to where the cold enters
the heater that shuts off only the hot water.

Colbyt

I can turn the shut off valve at the meter off with a crescent wrench.
Don't know whether I'm supposed to or not but I've done it several times.

Don


Why is it against the law?
Back when I lived in the city, I once had a crappy plastic water meter
snap off. I was a handyman at the time, so I had a street shutoff
tool, and shut off the water. If not, I would have flooded. When the
water company arrived, they were glad I had shut off the water. They
just replaced the meter WITH AN ALL BRASS ONE, and turned the water
back on. They never complained in the least.

Don't be embarrassed in the least, what should be easy isn't always. since
you know where the meter is, then go to the first logical place (straight
line) inside your residence and the shut off should be there. I say SHOULD,
because I had a house with the main shut off in the utility access at the
rear of the property and the residence shut off had become part of the
addition and was under the floor (altho with a handle to lift up the floor).

Some home shutoffs, are outside by the sprinkler shut off. Don't know which
Boeing location you are at, but snow/no snow would also be a clue. Freezing
ground would mean shut off in conditioned space.

I personally have more than once (tence) shut off at meter for various
reasons. Having the shut off key it particularly useful when something
major breaks and you can't get to the house shut off only the meter/main.

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Totus Tuus
Claudia
"Default User" wrote in message
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Halvey wrote:
Default User wrote:
This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm not sure where the main water
cutoff is for my house. I have slab foundation, so obviously not in
the basement where most guides tell you to look.

Mine is in the parking strip between the sidewalk and street.


The only possibility in the front yard would be the water meter access.
I haven't looked down in there, worth trying tomorrow. I think that
cover comes off without a special tool.




Brian

Colbyt wrote:

On slab homes the main inside cutoff is usually near the water heater.
Follow the cold pipe backwards from the heater to the wall or floor
that is where it usually is. There is also a cutoff close to where
the cold enters the heater that shuts off only the hot water.

The garage or laundry/utility room seemed most logical to me, but I
haven't come up with it. The garage is attached, with the laundry room
behind it. I looked at the water heater, but no luck. The cold water
pipe comes out of the drywall behind it, and the hot pipe (which has
its valve) goes right back in.



Brian

Claudia wrote:

Don't be embarrassed in the least, what should be easy isn't always.
since you know where the meter is, then go to the first logical place
(straight line) inside your residence and the shut off should be
there. I say SHOULD, because I had a house with the main shut off in
the utility access at the rear of the property and the residence shut
off had become part of the addition and was under the floor (altho
with a handle to lift up the floor).

The meter is about middle of the house, so in such a case the access
would be in the living room. There's nothing that I can see that seems
likely there.

Some home shutoffs, are outside by the sprinkler shut off. Don't
know which Boeing location you are at, but snow/no snow would also be
a clue. Freezing ground would mean shut off in conditioned space.

St. Louis. As I mention in another message, the logical place to me
would be the garage or the utility room, but no luck.


Thanks.



Brian

"Default User" wrote in message
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Colbyt wrote:

On slab homes the main inside cutoff is usually near the water heater.
Follow the cold pipe backwards from the heater to the wall or floor
that is where it usually is. There is also a cutoff close to where
the cold enters the heater that shuts off only the hot water.

The garage or laundry/utility room seemed most logical to me, but I
haven't come up with it. The garage is attached, with the laundry room
behind it. I looked at the water heater, but no luck. The cold water
pipe comes out of the drywall behind it, and the hot pipe (which has
its valve) goes right back in.



Brian

Did you check your meter area? I would expect there would be a turn off
there. Then another down line from it. Do you live in an area where the
lines could freeze?

In my area where it freezes the meter is in a hole near the street. It has
a turn off valve built in. Then there is a turn off valve where the line
enters the house in the basement.

In the Los Angeles area with a slab there was a valve outside the house
where the line came up out of the ground and entered the house. There was
another at the street in the meter area.

"Default User" wrote in message
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HRL wrote:


Did you check your meter area? I would expect there would be a turn
off there. Then another down line from it. Do you live in an area
where the lines could freeze?

I have not yet, I need to do that. I'm in St. Louis where it most
definitely can freeze.

Could be in a metal or plastic valve box in the front yard, perhaps hidden
under landscaping, or the yard 'swallowed' it. (Same way a lush yard trys to
overtake a concrete patio, and you have to keep cutting it back with a flat
shovel.) Doesn't have to be big- 8" round or 8x10 rectangle. Not the best
way to do it, and not code in some areas, but I have seen it before in slab
houses. If drywall job in utility room isn't original, it could also be
buried in there, or under a floor tile. Lotsa clueless people make changes
over the years.

aem sends....

Can't imagine a builder using ore pipe than needed, ours is the
closest corner of the house to the main valve in the parking strip.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:25:31 GMT, "HRL" wrote:

In the Los Angeles area with a slab there was a valve outside the house
where the line came up out of the ground and entered the house. There was
another at the street in the meter area.