Is your only hope buried? Part 1

People don't know that they have a leak until everything starts thawing. Almost all homes actually have a whole home shut off, but more often than not it's buried deep in the ground over years of mulch and it just gets covered up and people just forget about it, right? People think it's a luxury, but as a plumber I believe it's an absolute necessity to have a whole home shut off valve near the home itself. That seems like something really nice to have. Unfortunately not a lot of people want to, you know, get it exposed, repair it, and get it upright. If there was an emergency, they can go outside, they can turn their water off real quick rather than fumbling around looking for the meter key, looking for another key to unlock the manhole cover. At that time it's precious when there's an actual leak. Absolutely precious.