Greetings,
I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
source for this setup? Many TIA.....
Mark L.
Posted to to the home repair group also
Someone in another group suggested www.wagsvalve.com
Mark L. wrote:
> Greetings,
> I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
> solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
> up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
> water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
> basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
> source for this setup? Many TIA.....
> Mark L.
> Posted to to the home repair group also
>
"Mark L." wrote:
> Greetings,
> I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
> solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
> up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
> water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
> basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
> source for this setup? Many TIA.....
> Mark L.
> Posted to to the home repair group also
Try Grainger's:
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611630349&ccitem=
--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
(Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)
Thanks, Scott. I just ordered one :-)
Scott Lurndal wrote:
> "Mark L." <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>Greetings,
>> I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
>>solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
>>up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
>>water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
>>basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
>>source for this setup? Many TIA.....
>> Mark L.
>>Posted to to the home repair group also
>>
>
>
> <http://www.smarthome.com/7115H.html>
Sad to say that the kids at Ace had no idea, they told me to try a
BORG.....
patriarch < wrote:
> If it were me, and I realize that it is not, I would drag myself down to
> the locally owned hardware store, where, like the tavern in Bahston,
> everybody knows my name. But more importantly, everybody knows their
> business, or who on the staff knows that particular piece of the business.
>
> My local store says Do It Best, right beside the owners' name. Yours may
> say Ace, or TrueValue, or something else. If they don't carry it, they can
> likely order it, or send you to a plumbing supply house.
>
> Prolly the most valuable thing I get from the local folks is a silent look
> that says: "are you sure you want to do something that stupid?", when I've
> explained what it is I thought I wanted to do. Then they show me a better
> idea, hand me the parts from somewhere obscure, and send me on my way,
> smiling. Plumbing repairs used to be a three-trip process, every time.
> The average is now down to something like 1.2 trips. Thank you, Eric.
>
> Patriarch
"Mark L." <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Greetings,
> I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
> solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
> up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
> water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
> basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
> source for this setup? Many TIA.....
> Mark L.
> Posted to to the home repair group also
>
>
If it were me, and I realize that it is not, I would drag myself down to
the locally owned hardware store, where, like the tavern in Bahston,
everybody knows my name. But more importantly, everybody knows their
business, or who on the staff knows that particular piece of the business.
My local store says Do It Best, right beside the owners' name. Yours may
say Ace, or TrueValue, or something else. If they don't carry it, they can
likely order it, or send you to a plumbing supply house.
Prolly the most valuable thing I get from the local folks is a silent look
that says: "are you sure you want to do something that stupid?", when I've
explained what it is I thought I wanted to do. Then they show me a better
idea, hand me the parts from somewhere obscure, and send me on my way,
smiling. Plumbing repairs used to be a three-trip process, every time.
The average is now down to something like 1.2 trips. Thank you, Eric.
Patriarch
[email protected] (Phil Crow) wrote in
news:[email protected]:
<snip>
>
> You are sooooo spoiled <g>.
<snip>
Amen to that!
Patriarch
"Mark L." <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>>
Let us know what you end up spending, please.
And my condolences on your lame experience at Ace Hardware. I hope you
fare better with the plumber.
Patriarch
"patriarch [email protected]>" <<patriarch> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Plumbing repairs used to be a three-trip process, every time.
> The average is now down to something like 1.2 trips. Thank you, Eric.
>
> Patriarch
That's it! You blew it with this post. I was kinda enjoying what you had
to say in this post until you hit the above point. Let me just tell you in
no uncertain terms - it says right in the Bible (look on page 139) that you
cannot do plumbing repairs without at least 3 trips to the hardware store.
What you're saying is nothing short of sacrilege. Or... perhaps you meant
that the trips to return all the extra stuff you didn't need after you were
done has been reduced to 1.2 trips. That would be admirable.
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
I am waiting for a 'qualified installer' to reply.... I may go with a
simpler water only valve that I can buy and install myself. The valve
goes for around $80 US.
Mark L.
patriarch < wrote:
> "Mark L." <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>
>
> Let us know what you end up spending, please.
>
> And my condolences on your lame experience at Ace Hardware. I hope you
> fare better with the plumber.
>
> Patriarch
Thanks for the link Jack. I was hoping that someone sold the pan, float
switch and valve as a package. If not, that's definitely the valve I
need.
Nova wrote:
> "Mark L." wrote:
>
>
>>Greetings,
>> I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
>>solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
>>up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
>>water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
>>basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
>>source for this setup? Many TIA.....
>> Mark L.
>>Posted to to the home repair group also
>
>
> Try Grainger's:
>
> http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611630349&ccitem=
>
> --
> Jack Novak
> Buffalo, NY - USA
> (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)
>
>
patriarch <<patriarch>[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Mark L." <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > Greetings,
> > I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
> > solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
> > up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
> > water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
> > basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
> > source for this setup? Many TIA.....
> > Mark L.
> > Posted to to the home repair group also
> >
> >
>
> If it were me, and I realize that it is not, I would drag myself down to
> the locally owned hardware store, where, like the tavern in Bahston,
> everybody knows my name. But more importantly, everybody knows their
> business, or who on the staff knows that particular piece of the business.
>
> My local store says Do It Best, right beside the owners' name. Yours may
> say Ace, or TrueValue, or something else. If they don't carry it, they can
> likely order it, or send you to a plumbing supply house.
>
> Prolly the most valuable thing I get from the local folks is a silent look
> that says: "are you sure you want to do something that stupid?", when I've
> explained what it is I thought I wanted to do. Then they show me a better
> idea, hand me the parts from somewhere obscure, and send me on my way,
> smiling. Plumbing repairs used to be a three-trip process, every time.
> The average is now down to something like 1.2 trips. Thank you, Eric.
>
> Patriarch
You are sooooo spoiled <g>. The only "hardware store" in my town
spends most of its energy and inventory on dog food. I used to drive
across town just to go there to support the local guy, you know? The
last 4 or 5 times I've been in there, they not only didn't have what I
was looking for, but they SENT ME TO THE BORG. Go figure.
-Phil Crow
"Mark L." <[email protected]> writes:
>Greetings,
> I remember watching This Old House and they had a plumber install a
>solenoid in the supply line of a water heater. The solenoid was hooked
>up to a float in the safety pan underneath, if the pan filled with
>water, the solenoid would cut the water supply and hopefully your
>basement wouldn't be an oversized heated swimming pool. Anyone know of a
>source for this setup? Many TIA.....
> Mark L.
>Posted to to the home repair group also
>
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