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To: goldworldnet who wrote (65)	9/4/2018 11:13:59 PM
From: russet	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 678

I think you need to separate those on well water and possibly salt water from oceans with those on city water drawn from lakes and rivers. I am interested in what proportion of everyone here on the thread has wells, versus those that have municipal water that has been softened or has been pulled from lakes and rivers. Calcification rarely occurs in the latter. Still there are electrolytes that can crystallize, even in very soft municipal water drawn from lakes and rivers. I have lived in cities that draw their water from lakes and rivers most of my life. But the rest of my life I have had well water or sea shore water that is full of metals and minerals that demand softener systems or electrolyte deposits (calcum, iron etc) are extreme and give you the problems you are describing.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (65)	9/6/2018 1:03:40 AM
From: Heywood40	5 Recommendations Recommended By Alan Smithee Bob Copeland goldworldnet Neeka Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 678

I'd recommend quarter-turn shutoff valves. Excerpt from link below: Pretty much any house you walk into in America has compression shutoff valves at the water line hookups under every sink and behind every toilet in the house. These compression valves where never designed to last. They must have all been made in the most cost savings oriented factory in the world because the compression aspect of the valve just simply fails after any period of time longer than about a decade. Now, when I’m talking about a compression shutoff valve, what I mean is the multi-turn angle valve for the hookup lines. Here's a photo: A multi-turn angle valve shuts-off the water via compression in the valve. It’s the compression aspect in the valve that is guaranteed to fail after a lot of use or simply the passage of time. Job #1 when I’m doing a rehab is to replace every single compression shutoff valve in the house with a quarter turn shutoff valve. The quarter turn valve is in essence a ball-joint valve and you can be darn sure that puppy isn’t going to fail. Below is a photo of this kind of valve. Once all of the shutoff valves are converted to the quarter turn valve, I can always breathe easier when I'm having subs change things out in the bathrooms or anywhere in the house where water is involved. Other than a fire, water leaking anywhere in the house is the most destructive thing that can happen. biggerpockets.com