Gliderman8
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About 4 years ago I built a wireless (z-wave) water shut-off system for my house after my mother-in-laws house sustained about $75K of water damage due to a broken toilet tank while no-one was home.
I installed small round moisture detectors like this
in all the bathrooms, laundry room, kitchen and the BASEMENT by the water heater.
Yesterday evening I was getting ready to leave when I received this text message:
As soon as I got the message my wife called to say she also got the "alert" and wanted to know what was going on. I went into the basement and found that my water heater supply line had started to leak and was streaming out of the top of the water heater. Once it started to pool onto the floor the moisture sensor notified the z-waved control box and the water to the house was automatically shut off in seconds avoiding major damage and sent me a text message to let me know.
This is the water shutoff valve and control box I installed:
This weekend we happened to be away and without this setup it could have been much worse as the water could have continued to run the entire time we were away!
This system just saved lots more than the cost to put it in.
I installed small round moisture detectors like this
in all the bathrooms, laundry room, kitchen and the BASEMENT by the water heater.
Yesterday evening I was getting ready to leave when I received this text message:
As soon as I got the message my wife called to say she also got the "alert" and wanted to know what was going on. I went into the basement and found that my water heater supply line had started to leak and was streaming out of the top of the water heater. Once it started to pool onto the floor the moisture sensor notified the z-waved control box and the water to the house was automatically shut off in seconds avoiding major damage and sent me a text message to let me know.
This is the water shutoff valve and control box I installed:
This weekend we happened to be away and without this setup it could have been much worse as the water could have continued to run the entire time we were away!
This system just saved lots more than the cost to put it in.
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