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Originally Posted by shreddog
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I've never seen water main valve stick up so high before. Can't imagine how that was acceptable. Is the first pic also the water main without the cap on it?
I'm wondering if someone had to do a rush job after these were built and just stuck whatever they had in there to cap it off.
Last year my valve was drip leaking for my house shut off. It only started after I had turned off the water and turned it back on. The valve was corroded. I called Halton region and they said no problem we have a guy 5 minutes away. It's a free service. He comes in and replaces the knob.
Well... to do that, they have to turn off the water from the street main to the house and we could not find that in my yard. This was a Saturday and in total three separate guys came over, two of them with specialized equipment and some ancient blue prints to try and locate this. They're being paid time and a half. The marked potential spots with evaporating blue paint and dug up a big chunk of my front lawn too on their first guess, but that was fine, they just put the chunk right back.
Anyway, neighbour beside said 10 years ago the previous owners re-did the driveway and he warned them not to do what some others did and bury the valve cap because they didn't want it visible on their driveway. Newer houses of course put them on the lawn. Well that's exactly what they did. And I can see it happened to my other neighbour and some others on the street.
So they took a pick axe and chopped up my driveway in one small place and discovered the pipe for the main, but no cap! Anyway, they turned if off, replaced my knob in 5 minutes and laid down some cold patch asphalt and left... 5 hours after they started. Good thing is that this spot is right where my driveway meets the paver stones on the side so it's way less obvious. However, the cap is not flush because a paver stone is in the way on one side.