From: dannyb@panix.com
In Jim Joyce
writes:
>>My plumbing pet peeve is why do tubs and showers NOT have their own
>>shutoffs of any kind ?
>My last house had a "distribution manifold" in the garage that provided
>the capability to shut off the hot or cold water to any faucet in the
>house. It came in very handy on a couple of occasions.
our house in Flyover Country, built 1990ish, has utility water
piped in under our basement and then coming up, with a rotary
shut off valve about a foot off the concrete.
As this is a contracter, 35 y/o cheapie, if we ever needed
to use that valve it would have been a "cross your fingers
that it'll close and then reopen without major leaks" deal.
So... the next time we had some real plumbers here, we had
them shut that valve, cut out a foot of pipe "downstream"
(inside the house), add a couple of inches of new pipe,
then a new valve, more pipe, a garden house faucet, some
more pipe, another new valve, and then reconnected to
the home plumbing.
(rotate 90 degrees)
[floor] original pipe, oroginal valve, new pipe, new valve, short pipe,
garden faucet, short pipe, new valve, short pipe, old plumbing...
This way, if something goes wrong with interior plumbing and
we have to shut off the whole house, we can cut out 95 percent
of the building and still have marginally useful water from
that new faucet [a] until we fix the problem.
[a] while no showers... we can fill some buckets and
carry them to the toilet, etc.
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