Flood!

I woke up to a fish room floor covered in water and for the first time ever, it wasn't my own fault. The cutoff valve to one of my 250 gallon water storage containers failed. I went up to the end of my long dirt road to turn of the water at the meter. I'm headed out to the hardware store so I dont' have to be without water for any longer than necessary.

I've never had a valve fail before. I never have until now.

What type of valve was it?

ball valve

Wow! I am surprised. I have never seen a ball valve fail. I have seen them stick closed. And you use the expensive schedule 80 union valves.

not on this. this is sch 40.

You should have kept some of the schedule 80 valves you gave me. Remember, "No good deed goes unpunished"

Hope you got it fixed.

There was only 1 1/2". I thought I kept it but I guess I gave it to you. All the rest were 1" I did keep 2 of those, just in case.

I really hate waking up to floods:(

Sorry you had one Liz.. they are never fun to deal with.

It's not a crisis in my fishroom, just a PITA. I'm just glad that this was an easy fix.