Video: How To Shut Off Your Water Main

CONCORD – Host, Sarah Rutan: In the event of a catastrophic leak or other water-related emergency, you’ll need to know how to access and shut off your home’s water main. Today we’re in Concord with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Alex Diaz of Water Heaters Masters to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Alex Diaz: So you’ve discovered that the shut-off to the water heater doesn’t work. So the next thing you do is — Let’s say you can’t shut it off at the water heater, what you want to do, is you want to look for the main shut off to the home. And it’s a good thing to know, where the main shut off is in the home. If you don’t know where it is, usually it’s in front of the house or behind a bush — Or, usually one way to find out exactly where the main shut-off is, is you actually line it up, where the main shut-off to the house comes in. And if you draw a straight line all the way through, you’ll find this.

So this right here is the water shut-off. This turns off the entire main to the whole house. And in this particular case this is what’s called a ball-valve shut-off, a full port ball-valve, so what you want to do in this case, you want to turn this handle up this way. That shuts the water completely off to the home. So in case of an emergency, or you have a leak inside the house, contractor ruptured a pipe accidentally, this is where to go. This turns off the entire water to the whole house and I hope this helps. Thanks again.

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