If my water meter is inside my house, does that mean I can rule out a water main leak if I turned off the water supply and the meter is still running? A lot of stuff I read online are houses that have their meter away from their house and a water leak means it's between the meter and the house underground.
>>2850446Bro if you shut off the water 5" away from the meter with no leaks and the fucking things still going you need to record that and get a lawyer because you're probably owed decades of back pay
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>>2850465I don't get the reference, could you explain this scene
Assuming the meter is turning without you using water, prompting you to investigate for a leak:Scenario 1>water meter is before shutoff valve>water meter stops with valve closedWater leak is after valveScenario 2>water meter is before shutoff valve>water meter keeps going with valve closedWater leak is between meter and valveScenario 3>shutoff valve is before water meter>water meter stops with valve closedWater leak is after meterScenario 4>shutoff valve is before water meter>water meter keeps going with valve closedYou're a wizard and have managed to conjure infinite water from nothing
>>2850446If the meter is running, that means water is exiting the system somewhere after the meter and new water is coming in to replace it. So if you have the main water shutoff valve closed, and the meter is inside your house and you can see that there are no leaks between the meter and that valve, and the meter is still going, that's kind of impossible. In that scenario there must be an offshoot pipe somewhere between the meter and valve that you're not seeing which is using water.As for a leak before the meter, that would not be detectable by looking at the meter since a leak before the meter wouldn't cause flow though the meter, it would just lower your water pressure.
>does that mean I can rule out a water main leak if I turned off the water supply and the meter is still running?it means you didn't actually turn off the water
>>2850859>>2850890I was hoping that the meter was broken bu I turned it off and while it did move slightly after it was off, it didn't move at all for the hours after it was off so it tells me there is a leak somewhere in my house. Once I turned it back on, I could hear water moving slightly which tells me that there is indeed a leak somewhere since new water is coming in to replenish the pipes.
>>2850924You failed to define "slightly"It's probably your hot water tank or that retard chamber with an air pouch that maintains pressure.In my water lines, there's a little unscrewable cap, maybe a bleeder valve or something, it looks like a tire valve cap.Inside there was a dry rotted gasket and after servicing my water lines elsewhere, upon turning the water back on, this dry rotted gasket began to leak. I just took an oring if a similar size, stuck it in there, screwed it back on, and it's been holding.You could have anything from a running toilet to a bad sink knob that's just slowly fills up and evaporated off before dripping Or the inside of your walls could be completely saturated and full of mold A thermal camera and moisture detector can help you find this leak
