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Old 04-24-2022, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee View Post
We had a plumber change out the plastic piece and put in a heavy duty metal lever which turns off our water supply to the whole house.
One of least desirable things in water source in a metal valve, plumbers are great at plumbing not experts in water contamination.

Nova uses a Schedule 80 heavy duty plastic ball valve as already mentioned very easy to turn.

Forcing the standard cheap ones sometimes breaks the wings off then you're trouble.
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