Hi all.
I searched the forums several times but can't find the answer I'm looking for. I have an LG high efficiency washer attached to the hot & cold water supply via a Watts Intelliflow leak preventer. The Intelliflow has malfunctioned before and now it's shot, so I needed to remove it. I shut off my water main, removed the unit from the 2 copper pipes, and noticed that the pipes didn't even spill a drop of water (there are no valves on these lines - just directly into the Intelliflow - that's how the prior owner had the plumber install it). So I leave the intelliflow disconnected, turn on my main slowly, and have my wife watch the 2 copper pipes, and no water whatsoever comes out of them. The pipes are 100% dead!
The water in the rest of the house is on, so I know I turned the main on, but I can't figure out why these pipes would be 100% dead when as recently as a week ago I was doing laundry without a problem, and I'm sure no one touched any valves inside or outside the house (other than using the garden hoses). Why would the supply suddenly go completely dead? Where can I begin to trace this issue back to a valve? The pipes are behind the wall so I can't see where they go to, but again, they were working as recently as a week ago and no one has touched anything.
Thanks!
I searched the forums several times but can't find the answer I'm looking for. I have an LG high efficiency washer attached to the hot & cold water supply via a Watts Intelliflow leak preventer. The Intelliflow has malfunctioned before and now it's shot, so I needed to remove it. I shut off my water main, removed the unit from the 2 copper pipes, and noticed that the pipes didn't even spill a drop of water (there are no valves on these lines - just directly into the Intelliflow - that's how the prior owner had the plumber install it). So I leave the intelliflow disconnected, turn on my main slowly, and have my wife watch the 2 copper pipes, and no water whatsoever comes out of them. The pipes are 100% dead!
The water in the rest of the house is on, so I know I turned the main on, but I can't figure out why these pipes would be 100% dead when as recently as a week ago I was doing laundry without a problem, and I'm sure no one touched any valves inside or outside the house (other than using the garden hoses). Why would the supply suddenly go completely dead? Where can I begin to trace this issue back to a valve? The pipes are behind the wall so I can't see where they go to, but again, they were working as recently as a week ago and no one has touched anything.
Thanks!