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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?

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[-] davidalso@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine it would be more than a couple hundred bucks assuming they can find an accessible point for it. Mine is in an unfinished room at the corner of the basement where the main line comes in and replacing it took the plumber life twenty minutes.

You can ask the plumber about coordinating with the city for shutoff. Maybe they'd know a guy?

But definitely don't mess with it if. In my case I couldn't find my external shutoff when I needed that internal one replaced so I had the city come locate it for me. They uncovered the plate, tested the valve and it broke immediately. Fixing it was a major excavation. The city guy told me how lucky I was that I hadn't found it and tested it myself.

[-] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 41 points 1 year ago

Mine is in an unfinished room at the corner of the basement where the main line comes in and replacing it took the plumber life

RIP poor plumber

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn. May their sacrifice never be forgotten o7

[-] davidalso@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Heh. Not even fixing it.

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