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When water is moving somewhere it should not be and you cannot stop it at a fixture, close the main valve and call, because everything after that is damage rather than plumbing.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

An emergency call is triage before it's repair. The plumber wants to know what's wet, what's still under pressure, and whether anybody has found the shutoff yet. On a Georgia slab house the main is usually at the meter box near the road or on the hose bibb side of the foundation, and on a well property it's the pressure tank and the pump breaker instead. Stopping the water buys the time to work properly. From there the job is deciding what's a genuine emergency and what's a Monday problem, because a leaking supply line and a slow shower drain do not carry the same clock. Sewage backing up gets treated as urgent for health reasons regardless of how much of it there is. A water heater venting at the relief valve gets shut down at the gas or the breaker before anyone touches it. The plumber makes the house safe first, then explains what the real repair involves once the pressure is off and the picture is clear.

Frequently asked questions

Water you can't stop, sewage inside the living space, or no water at all in an occupied house. A drip in a cabinet that a bucket can hold is unpleasant but it can wait for daylight. The dividing line is whether the situation is still getting worse while you watch it.
Most slab and crawlspace homes in Georgia have it at the meter box out toward the road, under a plastic or iron lid, and many also have a valve where the line enters the house near an outside spigot. Finding it on an ordinary afternoon is a great deal easier than finding it at midnight.
Clear access to the area, a note of what you already shut off, and an idea of when it started. If the property is on a well or a septic system, saying so up front matters, since it changes what the plumber checks first and what gets carried in from the truck.
Yes. Clean water damages materials, while a sewage backup is a health matter as well, so it gets handled as urgent even when the volume is small. Keeping people and pets out of the affected rooms until it's dealt with is the sensible move.

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