[quote=spdrun]The worst are the water valves with corrugated hoses permanently attached, from the 80s. Pure junk. If you have those, replace ASAP.
Technically, your water valve doesn’t need to be welded. It needs to be soldered. Easy enough to do with a blowtorch, some flux, and some solder, but you need to get the water co to shut off the water to the house since you can’t solder a squirting pipe.
You can also get a freezing kit that creates an ice plug in the pipe further from where you will solder.
As far as the valve in future, close and open it once every month or so. That keeps deposits from building up and jamming it open or making it leak.[/quote]
I know exactly what you are talking about those old style valves. I still had a few in one of my houses. The trick to making sure those old valves never leak? Never use them…
I meant solder, not weld. But its still a pita. I do have a main water line shutoff that shuts off water to the entire property and one that just shuts off the irrigation. It’s funny both of those work just fine. Whoever decided to put this screw=type drop gate shutoff valve for the house water line, however, was a moron.
