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?

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      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 🙏

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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
        1·
        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)