Smart Water Shutoff Installation in Santee

Say you're at work or out of town, and the hose behind your washing machine splits. Instead of coming back to a wet floor, you get a notification on your cell phone that water is running where it shouldn't be. The device can turn the water off by itself, or you can shut it off with one tap in the app. You can look at your water in the app from wherever you are, so you have a better shot at catching a small leak early.

Which unit fits your home depends on the size of your water line, your water pressure, where the line comes into the house, and whether there's a good spot with power and WiFi.

Many homes in Carlton Hills and Carlton Oaks were built on concrete slabs, and some have water lines running beneath or through the slab. A leak under the slab can be hard to spot until the water bill goes up or a spot on the floor feels warm. A smart shutoff tracks how water flows into the house and can alert your cell phone if it keeps running when nothing is turned on.

A smart shutoff does the most good in a Santee home that sits empty part of the time. That might be a house everyone leaves for work all day, a place that gets rented out between stays, or a vacation home closed up for months, and it includes any home with a water heater or washing machine hoses that are getting on in years. In any of those, a small leak can run for days before anyone sees it. A shutoff that alerts your cell phone and can turn off your water on its own catches it early, from wherever you are.