Hey guys, today we're gonna talk about things you need to know about the plumbing around
your house and we're gonna talk about it right now.
Hey guys I'm Roger Wakefield, LEED AP, The Expert Plumber.
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Guys this is the tool that you need to get into your meter box, this end unlocks the
lid and this end actually shuts off the valve, if it's on top.
If it's on the side you'll need a crescent wrench.
Watch one of the other videos that we've got that can tell you how to get in here and turn
off the water.
Teaching your family, the entire family, how to turn off the water can save you tens of
thousands of dollars in case of an emergency.
If you've got a water heater in an attic and it's flooding, the faster you turn off the
water the more money you're gonna save on repairs.
The city meter is in this box, anything on your house side of it is your responsibility.
Sometimes they'll come out and tell you there's a leak on your side of the meter and it can
be anywhere from here all the way to a faucet in the house and at that point it's your responsibility.
Guys this is the valve box at the house.
Now I showed you the meter while ago, there's a yard service that runs under the ground
up to the house here and you get into this valve box and we've got valves here to shut
off water into the house.
Now as you can see right here, we've got a different configuration.
Our water comes in, it goes up goes through a filtration system and back out so we have
three valves in here so we can bypass our filtration system.
If we needed to work on the filtration system we could open up a valve and close two more
and make the water go directly from the meter into the house.
Again, if you've got a leak on your water system and it's anywhere this side of the
meter, it is your responsibility.
Guys the sanitary sewer is your responsibility from the city tap all the way into your house.
Now you will see it where the two-way clean outs are.
Now the two-way clean outs actually make a U so you can stick a camera or sewer machine
on this side and go towards the city or you can stick one in the other side which is under
the bushes to go up under the house.
Now when you do a sewer test on a house to see if it's holding water, we actually stick
a test ball on this side go towards the city and block it off and then fill it up with
water up to the slab level to see if there are any leaks under the house.
Now as you can see I also have a p-trap coming off mine, this is where the rinse goes to
whenever the filter back washes.
Guys like I said I've got a Flowtech filtration system.
What I like about this that takes the chlorine and the chloramine out of our water.
This is great for the smell of the water, the taste of the water, and when you're taking
a shower anything like that the chlorine and chloramine out of the system you can really
tell a difference on your skin and your hair.
Not that I have much of it, but you can tell the difference.
Guys, this is the Flowtech anti scale.
We've got this on the water lines in our house because our water here is so hard, the anti
scale breaks up the calcium and magnesium and leaves it in the water so it actually
comes out and does what it's intended to do.
It doesn't stick to the inside of the water heater or the inside of the water lines and
cause problems for us later.
Now as you can see here we've got the water heater, this of course is your responsibility.
The reason I wanted to go ahead and bring you all the way in and show you the water
heater, there's a ball valve up top on the three-quarter inch water line coming inside,
that if you have a leak on the hot water side you can actually shut off the water here and
you can still have cold water in the rest of your house.
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My name is Roger Wakefield with Texas Green Plumbing, I'll see you on the next video unless
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