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Originally Posted by sandybill2
We called our "home inspector" and asked him about the lack of pressure valve. He said he would be back by to take another look at it. He would either take care of it===but he said if you call the home warranty dept---I guarantee they will be out in less than 15 minutes. I should tell you we purchased a home built in 2004---we are the 4th owner and the only owners to live here full time.
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Hi sandybill, thanks for your earlier PM.
I had little expectation from the Warranty Dept after our debacle with the missing sprinkler head. However, our next-door neighbor recently realized that his water heater was lacking an expansion tank, and even though the house is also, like yours and ours, four years old, they came quickly as that is an actual safety violation, and the original plumber was back installing their expansion tank. I inquired as well and was shown that our tank was in the wall rather than on the heater itself. Chuckinca's instructions are clear and simple--I've done it at our home in NY (and you don't really have to run like he**!)--but why not at least ask TV's Warranty Dept to do it?
And yes, ours was a sprinkler line buried in the ground that had NEVER had a sprinkler head attached. It's hard to imagine that 25,000 gallons of water would run underground and go unnoticed for 3-1/2 years, but the soil is sandy and apparently not prone to sinkholes.... Unless one has a really large property, one generally shouldn't be in the second tier of irrigation water, given the current water restrictions; ours was in the third and would have been in the fourth had there been a fourth (third is the highest, so far as I know)! It's also worth checking each zone individually via the control box to see if the watering times and day are appropriate. Other neighbors of ours once got a snippy note left by the 'water police' that they were watering on the wrong day!