Water Meter Change Out

As part of our ongoing water system improvements, RPU is replacing aging water meters. If your meter is being changed, this video will help you understand the process.

[@telosfd]

Properly installed water meter at the right depth!

[@ostbagen]

20 to 30 minutes? What are they doing? Taking a nap? 10 minutes tops if there are not any issues with the installation.

[@SchnitzelFritz]

Iam a meter changer: Exactly you’re right! If you don’t have any issues I need 5 Minutes. Imagine I would change 12 per hour and 96 of them a day, 480 in a workweek and 25.000 a year!

[@sandrolopez8463]

Which kind of spanner are those?

[@michaelblaze]

you left out flushing through the hose bib. releasing the air in the lines is highly important.....

[@1432sniper]

What do you mean by flushing through the hose bib?

[@1432sniper]

Got you thanks!

[@jeffreypetree7163]

Won't it burp the air out itself ny turning the water on ?

[@jayr9256]

What kind of wrenches was he using?

[@conslebot5290]

Offset pipe wrench and crescent wrench

[@a1rborne7]

Low flow, means low money for the city..Thats why they replace those meters

[@TheEdshow-u7g]

where'd you get those tools?

[@oscaresquivel3269]

They’re speed wrenches. Any hardware store should have them.

[@anonymousbaros4424]

Our city had a water break so massive that it created a backflow that pulled the water from the pipes and fixtures in our houses including siphoning from my water heater. Is there a log of that? Would our city have a record of it because when the water was restored water went back through our meter filled our lines etc and now we're being re-charged for water that was originally in our pipes and fixtures to begin with!?

[@billsalcido7878]

water going backwards will spin the meter backwards so it wouldn’t be charging you more

[@bradlybean7986]

No backflow?

[@Flossin-Mine]

Nope

[@cooldog60]

Where I live the water meters are in the house. A 10 year old could change them.

[@GodwinMamporte]

That's Different to electric meter change out

[@nicoletahorodinca145]

Roumania (europe?) she wont CHANGE COMULSORY this with ANADRE NEW ,,appometer"(the second 2023)!!! This first appometer 2005 my is good fuction !

[@NateRA-sw7kd]

Thirdgill is a feef

[@ElQueTeVaMatar777]

What was that tool used to move the nuts on the meter i work for the water and it would help drastically

[@jdmbubba30354]

you can get them at your local home depot. HEAVY DUTY RAPIDGRIP PIPE WRENCH.

[@jorgecarmona3678]

@@jdmbubba30354 the extension on those one hand wrenches are aftermarket I believe; the extensions where welded.

[@dumcrapcat]

We call them pelicans where I work