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Originally Posted by ridge
Our home is going on 12 years old and have the typical push/pull water shut off values. Been reading their life span is about 10 years before they start leaking. Anyone have any experience with them beyond 10 years? Should I replace them? Do they really begin failing? If you replaced them, what did you use? Thanks for your responses.
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Had no problems at all for 17 years, then needed a new refrigerator right before the holidays. Found NO appliance store in the area would install a new refrigerator IF the home had the old pop up style valves ! So decided that 17 years with no problems was pushing our luck, had the village plumbers change the entire house, $68 each. Most quoted $78. The faucet type valves with braided stainless steel are MUCH less than that at HD, Lowe's, and Ace, so if you can do rather simple home tasks, replacing the values does not take major plumbing skills, we had other more complicated work at the same time, so just decided to have them do all the valves in the house and garage at the same time. Very satisfied with Village Plumbers, chose due to good reviews on here !