Another Bellingham Water Shut-Off

The same builder must have done the Sudden Valley house (see Blog 6/27/13) because he used a gas valve instead of a full port water valve.

Not only does it cut the flow to this duplex, but look at the second picture. See the dirty water? That's from restricted flow! It cleared up after a few minutes at full pressure, but think of the poor water quality caused by poor workmanship.

Ball Plumbing's plumbers corrected all the problems, of course, for a lot less than you'd think for the amount of quality we gave.

Sudden Valley Water Service

This gas shut-off was being used as a water shut-off on a very nice home next to the Sudden Valley golf course. We found it while replacing the water service--the pipe from the water meter to the house.

Notice the narrow opening in the valve. All these years this 3 bathroom house was suffering with an undersized water service and a gas shut-off.

We installed a proper water service and a full port ball valve.

House is happy, homeowners are happy, plumbers are happy, but a little sad some numby installed it in the first place.