Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

So some drunk teen could go around turning off people's water in the night? No.

I suppose one could, but its not super obvious given where its positioned.

I have a cutoff valve inside the house that I can reach while touching the water meter.

We've got an internal one, but I'm not actually sure it cuts off everything, or just the bathroom water (since that's were it is).

 

[Umbran]

I suppose one could, but its not super obvious given where its positioned.

Yours, maybe not. I'm speaking broadly - putting control of your home infrastructure outside the home means that anyone outside the house can access it.

We've got an internal one, but I'm not actually sure it cuts off everything, or just the bathroom water (since that's were it is).

For me, it goes from the wall into the meter, then the next thing along the pipe is the shutoff valve. The split between cold water supply and the water heater is after that valve, so it is pretty obvious.

 

[Willie the Duck]

We've got an internal one, but I'm not actually sure it cuts off everything, or just the bathroom water (since that's were it is).

Ours' is right where the water comes into the house (same with gas).

FWIW, it is probably a good idea to test that they work as well.

 

[dragoner]

California code likes shutoffs.

 

[RealAlHazred]

"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance."
-commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

... the last Royal Governor of New Jersey! He established that it is called Taylor Ham, by Royal proclamation!

 

[CleverNickName]

The sewer scope results are in, and the pipes are clean as a whistle, which you would expect for new sewer pipes that were installed in 2016. (I chuckled when I saw the video: that's ABS pipe, not PVC like the realtor said.) No cracks, no root intrusion, no sand or gravel, no leaks. It's a pristine sewer connection, all the way from the crawlspace to the street.

Radon test results should be back on Monday.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Radon test results should be back on Monday.

When my dad wanted to sell his house and move to Florida (as the Law requires when you hit a certain age), he got one of the Radon tests done. They put this bucket-sized meter in the basement where it sat for a while*. When they ran the tests, the results came back very mildly positive for Radon -- it's New Jersey, back from the 20s to the 40s the whole state was a big industrial site, and there are pockets of all sorts of hazardous chemicals illicitly buried all over.

He asked them to retest and they obliged. As soon as they left, he took the bucket out of the basement and put it in the garage, parked the cars outside, and left the doors open for a good cross-breeze. A few days later, he took the bucket back downstairs. When they picked it up and ran it, surprisingly it came back clean as a whistle...

* A few days? A week? I'm not sure anymore. It was 25 years ago,

 

[Scribe]

Mid reply, I guess I get what I asked for.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yours, maybe not. I'm speaking broadly - putting control of your home infrastructure outside the home means that anyone outside the house can access it.

Of course, anyone with the tools can do it in our case anyway since the gas and water controls are in crypts at the curb.

For me, it goes from the wall into the meter, then the next thing along the pipe is the shutoff valve. The split between cold water supply and the water heater is after that valve, so it is pretty obvious.

Our water meter is in the aforementioned crypt.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Ours' is right where the water comes into the house (same with gas).

FWIW, it is probably a good idea to test that they work as well.

Well, that I know since my plumber has turned them off on a couple occasions.