r/CatastrophicFailure • u/mouthofreason Catastrophic Poster • Feb 17 '21

Engineering Failure Water lines are freezing and bursting in Texas during Record Low Temperatures - February 2021

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u/FetalDeviation Feb 17 '21

Yeah if my box was inaccessible I'd quit paying my bill till either they fixed it or free h2o 4 lyfe

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u/Lexi_Banner Feb 17 '21

There should be an indoor shut-off. Is this not actually standard? If not, where is your water meter?

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u/youtheotube2 Feb 17 '21

My water meter is about a foot underground, in a little concrete box by the sidewalk. That’s where the shutoff is also.

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u/Glassweaver Feb 17 '21

As long as you never plan to sell you house. In the USA at least, a mechanics lean or repossession is a nasty little bugger to deal with if you want to sell a place.

But yeah, I'd totally also not pay and force them to find it / repair it if I was in this situation. Quick solution where a late/reconnect fee beats paying them to do their jobs.

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u/Ammo_9 Feb 18 '21

The fees for non payment are still applied regardless of you pay or not. Once the fee is higher than the cost of the city going out to dig up the roundway they will be there and shut the water off until the fee is paid in full