There you go,good point. One thing you could also do,if you do find a manifold leak,and its small,and you dont want to pull everything apart,which if your looking at a 10 year old valvebox near a tree or somthing,its a sucky job. Just throw a master valve right after the back flow if your clock is in the basement or somthing,or where ever your main line is closest to a free wire,or the clock,BEFORE ANY VALVES OBVIOUSELY. just a thought
Funny Story*
I went to a house for somone who had a 19 year old system,he does everything himself usually,he had this 4 hitter valve box he couldnt find and it was making the pump cycle because somthing was leaking. Well when you put a valve set and medium rectangular box next to a sapling,after 20 years its a decent tree.So I tracked the valves he couldnt find,Tracker screams,found them in 1 minute, he was impressed,I was happy.Open the box,boom, there is the leaking weathermatic,replaced the guts and everything,turn it on.Well the bottom is cracked and thats whats leaking. start digging up the box,and its SURROUNDED by roots everywhere even 4' away from the tree covering all 6 lines I need to relocate.This guy loves to help, and show off his tools lol,I wish every customer was like this. He starts bringing out ratcheting pruners,a cheap ass 3 inch auger for digging bulb holes or somthing,its attached to a 1980's drill,100' extension cord set up,2 axes,sawzalls,saws,he emptied his shed. This was an absolute freekin nightmare.I was overwhelmed,slashed and hacked and sawed for 35 minutes, got like absolutely no where.the valves were 12 inches below the 2 inches of rooted mulch. So the mains have to be relocated, zones couplinged because I cant put it back under the tree. The guy comes back and looks at the freekin mess,chopped roots 15ft away, he says I can live with that leaking like that for now, its free water. I convinced him that that was stupid, it was leaking pretty bad.He does it all himself so he doesnt want to spend $70 hr for hours to do it right+ valves and all that.So he wants to move them at some point, but I threw a master valve in for the time being and got the valve to leak a little slower. That was the absolute most ridiculous thing ive almost ever seen.
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