Our home water pressure has been a little above normal for quite a while now, although I didn’t know that that’s what was causing me to hear water running anywhere in the house at a specific corner of the playroom. Over the past few days, though it got really really loud. So I called a plumber we’ve used before.

Well, he came out yesterday and tested the pressure, and what should normally be around 75 PSI was 125 PSI rising to 150. He said, “your pressure regulator is broken, and as long as I’m replacing that why don’t I change the valve for the yard sprinklers and the main residential one, since they’re equally as old as the regulator.” That made some sense, so we said okay.

Then he got into it, and it involved 4 hours of labor, two new valves, a new regulator and a whole bunch of digging to get at the old pipe in order to replace it with new PVC and copper so everything will be more easily accessible in the future.

From Events

The yellow lever is the new main shutoff valve and the bell-like object is the new pressure regulator.

Suffice to say it cost a lot more than anticipated, but we’re happy with the results, so I guess it’s worth it.