Water Leaks Cost Homeowners Billions. Here’s a Smart Solution

Posted on May 2, 2021

Water Leaks Cost Homeowners Billions. Here’s a Smart Solution

One of the biggest threats to your home is something you enjoy every day. It’s cool. It’s clear. It’s calming. And it’s costly—extremely costly—to clear up.

Water damage from burst pipes, drips, and leaky appliances costs homeowners and insurers billions of dollars every year. Like many home problems, it happens quickly, unexpectedly, and out of sight. From collapsed ceilings to mold-blackened basements, water damage is disruptive, destructive, and often dangerous. Is there a solution?

Meet the Smart Water Valve+Meter

It uses cutting-edge connected technology to detect leaks and shut them off automatically. As part of our whole-home water protection solution, it responds intelligently to drips and leaks in different areas of your home, and helps you use water more efficiently with monitoring and insights.

Here’s what makes this technology a must-have for your home and your peace of mind:

Automatic Flood Shutdown

When a pipe or hose fails suddenly, your sole priority is: turn off the water. If you’re home and scramble to the water supply in time once you spot the leak, you’ll avert disaster. If not, you’re soaked.

Our Smart Water Valve+Meter changes everything. Installed at your home’s main water supply, its high-tech internal meter quickly detects large leaks and alerts your smart home system. The system then activates the device’s onboard actuator, closing the valve and shutting off your water to minimize damage.

By the time an alert reaches your phone, the most important thing is already taken care of, likely saving you from hundreds to thousands of dollars in damage repairs and sparing your possessions from being ruined.

Whole-Home Water Protection

Because your home’s plumbing is hidden, leaks and drips rarely emerge in plain sight. That’s why the Smart Water Valve+Meter constantly monitors the plumbing supply to detect even small drips that can lead to major damage. Integrated wireless water sensors provide redundant protection in high-risk areas like laundry rooms and detect threats outside of the plumbing system such as rising sump pump wells and overflowing air conditioning condensate pans.

Our Smart Water Valve+Meter also detects a range of other issues that cost you money. Its smart meter will help you detect persistent leaks or running toilets that cause water bills to skyrocket over time. It can alert you to excessive water consumption at home or at a rental property. It can even alert you to low water temperatures if your pipes are at risk of freezing in winter.

Intelligent Responses, Easy Controls

Because it’s integrated with your smart home system, it knows when you’re home or away and responds accordingly. For example, if someone is taking a long shower and your system knows you’re home, you’ll get an alert, but the water will stay on. However, if you’re away and one of your toilets is constantly running, the water will shut off to help save up to 200 gallons of wasted water per day. It takes whole-home intelligence to know and respond correctly.

Using the Smart Water Valve+Meter yourself, however, couldn’t be simpler. Once your Building36 service provider installs it, you’ll find the controls right there in your Building36 app—next to your smart home automation system, smart locks, smart thermostat, camera feeds and everything else.