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Category: Main Water Shutoff Valve

Where Is Your Main Water Shutoff Valve? How to Find and Test It Before an Emergency

Say a pipe splits in your house tonight. Do you know, right now, without looking, where the main shutoff is? If your honest answer is “in the basement somewhere,” you’re in good company, but that answer doesn’t stop water. That’s a bad time to start looking, because the water doesn’t wait while you move boxes around. Better to go find it today, when nothing is leaking. Look by the water meter. The line from the…