Benze
New Member
Hi,
I'm plumbing my laundry room, and thought it would be prudent to put in some automatic shutoff valves in case of hose or machine leak in the room. I figured a water sensor at the baseboard level as well as a couple of solenoid valves would do the trick just fine.
But I checked my local plumbing supply shop, and solenoid valves cost 120$ ea! Figure I need on for hot and cold lines, and it becomes crazily expensive.
Does anyone put these types of safeties in laundry rooms? Is there a better/cheaper way to do something like that? I was thinking of using the valves for underground sprinkler systems (I figure those have to be cheap to be sold at HD), but those are normally closed, and is more of a pain to work with. Plus, I don't know how reliable and leak proof those are.
Has anybody dealt with this in the past?
Thanks,
Eric
I'm plumbing my laundry room, and thought it would be prudent to put in some automatic shutoff valves in case of hose or machine leak in the room. I figured a water sensor at the baseboard level as well as a couple of solenoid valves would do the trick just fine.
But I checked my local plumbing supply shop, and solenoid valves cost 120$ ea! Figure I need on for hot and cold lines, and it becomes crazily expensive.
Does anyone put these types of safeties in laundry rooms? Is there a better/cheaper way to do something like that? I was thinking of using the valves for underground sprinkler systems (I figure those have to be cheap to be sold at HD), but those are normally closed, and is more of a pain to work with. Plus, I don't know how reliable and leak proof those are.
Has anybody dealt with this in the past?
Thanks,
Eric