Water Faucet Shutoff After Each Use - Is It Necessary?

[paul234]

Reply to yogitunes

Your joking about the skill level , I assume

I see how that would work but is it really any more reliable
than not using one? A Melnor hose valve for $2.98.

The brass one has only one review; that claims it restricts the flow.
I will consider all options even this $2.98 hose valve.

What about something like this?

3/4 in. Bronze Compression Ball Valve with Drain Full-Port

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Apollo-3...alve-with-Drain-Full-Port-THDCWD104/203020073

I'm note sure about the connections and if I need a drain port.

Is this also an option someone was steering me toward?
I'd assume I willl need two.

Any insight here would be apprciated.

thank you

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[paul234]

I'd rather have something like the one with the 3/4 ball valve and lever
( Pictured in post above )as it seems more for appliances, while these others are sold as mostly convienence for garden hoses.

This would seem the best if I go the garden hose route. Most other brands
had reported leaks and failures.
http://www.amazon.com/Dramm-12353-H...10169211&sr=8-1&keywords=water+shut+off+valve

Is there someting that will attach like this but is a ball valve with lever like the one I have picure in the previous post with the yellow lever handle(compression one). I am not familiar with the compression connections and assume this is not what I want for ends. However my hoses may have an adaptor in between them and the taps if I take it all apart.

Is there a lever type valve with the standand hose thread connections on each side like the garden hose valve but like the compression valve I have in post above?
It seems better for appliances than one for hoses IMO.

thank you

 

[philr]

I use small compression ball valves with a hose connection to shut off the water to my washers. Just a quarter of a turn and it's done. 

 

 

Something similar to that:

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410JH5kS+1L._SY300_.jpg

 

[DigAPony]

That compression ball valve is for use on copper pipe.

You just need something simple and inexpensive downstream of valve to relieve the full water pressure on the washer and hoses. If you want something similar but more substantial try hardware or plumbing supply stores.

 

[kb0nes]

If I were going to shut off the water after each use I think I'd want something damn simple, like one of these single lever valves from Watts. Granted you have to be a bit handy to install it unlike the simple screw on valves with the Garden Hose fittings. With the shutoff operation being as simple as flipping a lever, I could almost see doing it with one of these. 

 

 

http://www.watts.com/pages/_products_details.asp?pid=3511

 

[mark_wpduet]

The hoses

on my Duet washer will be 10 yrs old in a few months.....I don't turn them off unless I'm gone more than a few hours.

 

[mattl]

Either some folks have high water pressure or I'm lucky, but I've never turned the water off to any appliances ever, and doubt I ever will.  The hoses on my Kenmore TL are close to 20 years old and last time I checked they looked fine.  I bought my duets used so I have no idea the age of the hoses, but they are fine too. 

 

True, my stuff is in the basement, but it is a fully finished laundry room so I really don't want things like drywall soaked.  Funny thing is the storm sewers are more likely to cause a problem than bad hoses.  In times past we've had 3-4" of storm water in the entire basement, not fun to clean up.  Stripping wax off of 1100 sq. ft of floor is time consuming when it turns while so a hose leak near a drain is not too much of a worry.

 

[paul234]

These are all good ideas. It's a matter of my clearance between the wall and the hot and cold tap. They come out and angle down like a sink tap but with the screw on ends that look like they have a fitting to adapt to the hose type fitting. I have about two inches between the wall and the connections so I could see possbile having a problem attaching the long lever ones without plumbing expertize.

What to do think of the brass hose ones by Dramm? Reviews say they are solid brass inside too. They say the Gilmour brass are plastic inside

They cost 18 bucks and are said to withstand higher pressure that standard hose shut off valves.

http://www.dramm.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=8.0.0.0&productRec=430

Available at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Dramm-12353-H...10169211&sr=8-1&keywords=water+shut+off+valve

Brass Shut-Off Valve

Simply the best shut-off valve available. Dramm's #300 Brass Shut-Off Valve provides fingertip water control at the end of your greenhouse hose. A quarter turn of the large ergonomic handle and the water is off. Full water flow design. Made in the USA from brass, durable seals and a hard chrome plated ball to provide years of service. 3/4 threads.

 

[suburbanmd]

Some thoughts

1) ATC-equipped machines cycle the water on and off multiple times per fill. So they're harder on hoses than non-ATC machines.

2) A leaking hose isn't the only way a washing machine can flood your house. A leaking fill valve could also do it.

3) I know four people who've had flood disasters caused by toilet tank fill hoses. No one I know has mentioned a flood involving their washing machine. After hearing of enough disasters, I installed a whole-house flood protection system. It'll allow some flooding, but will eventually shut off the water. The time for "eventually" depends on whether it's in home or away mode, and the settings for each mode.

 

[paul234]

As for the toilets

I think I'll just shut them off after use with the existing hot and cold handles

Then if the valve washers wear soon I will attempt to replace. If that is not good I may have the plumber put in the ball lever valves. I'll cross that bridge if I get to it.

Yea, I thought the manual indicated the danger of flooding was if a seal or valve in the washer failed.

As for the toilets. I don't doubt you but I haven't heard of this problem and I can't OCD on toilets flooding too. I'd go nuts....

I forgot to mention I only wash about two loads every 7-10 days, as a single dude.

Toilets eh? don't get me paranoid

thank you all

 

[DADoES]

Toilet Trouble

 
I had a situation some years ago with the fill tube inside the tank splitting below the float.  Theoretically (although probably not at full line-pressure) the overflow outlet would have handled it ... but the split was spraying up toward the tank lid so the pressure was flooding water out under the lid.

Another luck situation.  I had walked past the bathroom moments before the split occurred, on my way out to work.  Heard water running so backtracked and found the problem happening.  It could have been much worse.

 

[AREnglish]

Water faucet shut off

Faucets experience the most use in the average home and need to handle quite a bit of wear and tear. The last time when I left the faucet on then the whole house was flooded. The lever was damaged and had to call plumbers in south jersey to fix this.

http://www.southjerseyplumbing.org/