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Shut Off Main Water Supply

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Doing The Work Is The Best Way To Learn...We changed Some Hard Angle-Stops!

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Before starting any plumbing work involving water lines, locate the main water shut-off valve, usually located outside near the water meter. Use a meter key, a specialized long-handled wrench, to turn the valve handle clockwise until the water flow is completely stopped. Once the main valve is off, open a faucet inside the house (preferably the lowest one) to drain any remaining water from the pipes and relieve pressure.

Goal: The first critical step in any plumbing project is to completely shut off the main water supply to prevent flooding. This is typically done using a meter key at the main water shut-off valve outside the house.

Tools and materials

  • Meter Key

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so what's the first thing we're gonna do whenever we're working with water today we're gonna be changing out some angle stops is the very first thing we're gonna do we need to shut off the water perfect let's go outside okay so what you have in your hand is a meter key this is one of your all-time favorite tools as a plumber when you're shutting water off outside why because unless you like spiders and scorpions and weird things like that depending on what location you're in you're going to end up touching them if you don't have one of those pop this bad boy open right there they actually have a little latch and just turn that to the right boom we're off train of water slower slower okay so this is what we're gonna be

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