Yes, float valve
Hudson Valves.
I have this timer for the pool at my rental and adore it. You turn the knob and it just clicks away and shuts off automatically when its run through. There’s also an option to bypass the timer and have it just go. Less then 10 bucks, it saved my sanity with the renter!
I don’t like the float valves because I like to dump and scrub weekly.
I don’t like the float valves because I like to dump and scrub weekly.
You can use them as insurance only.
For example, attach valve. But still manually turn your water on and off when you want to refill the tub. Therefore, you can still dump and scrub weekly without it always being full.
But…if some day you forget the water on - it will just stop when the tub gets full and shuts the valve off.
All these ideas are wonderful!
If you tend to leave for work with the water running, place car keys on top of the faucet. I used to leave pool water on and would realize it about mid-morning.
OK don’t make fun of me, but I am on rainwater and do not like to have to fill my tank with well water. So water is important.
I usually wear a ball cap outside doing chores. If I allow myself to walk away from the hose when filling anything, I turn my ball cap around on my head. Not allowed to turn it back the right way until hose is off.
The corollary rule is that I do not allow myself to leave hose on if no ball cap on.
I just did this for the first time last week. I don’t always have my cell phone with me at the barn, so maybe I will try the twine bracelet idea.
We use the one with the float that cuts off flow. Works well but I wouldn’t leave for vacation with that stopping things.
You might make the person clip their car keys or cell phone to the valve. Won’t go long before noticing that.
I have fear of float valves, except for those rare occasions in which I can rig a way that the valve is NOT in the pasture with the horses. I need a really loooong water trough! I use electric fencing so I don’t want to have half or even a third of the trough outside the fence, making the poor horses have to get too close to the wire when they are drinking. But having the valve in the pasture with a bunch of delinquents hasn’t ended well in the past.
Anyway, the reason I’m saying that is that I am a BAD offender for leaving the hose running, and when I was sharing a barn with friends they pretty much said “put on a float valve or figure something out”. And I deserved the ultimatum! 
I am a big fan of the iPhone timer. I also looked into the hose-end timers but so far so good with setting a LOUD (it’s barking dogs, and I have no dog!) alarm on my phone. Before I came up with the timer idea I sang “the hose is on, the hose is on, hi ho, the hose is on” ad nauseum as I did the rest of my barn chores. The timer is much better. Of course you still have to remember to set it…
Just make the rule " ALWAYS DISCONNECT HOSE AFTER EACH USE !"
After we had “Lake Zu Zu” :eek: :lol:[B]
- not my ‘doing’ !!
I just made the rule …
“ALWAYS DISCONNECT the hose from the hydrant after each use”
[/B]*Honestly NO ONE will fail to recognize the hydrant is still on if the water is :eek: SPLASHING ON HIS FEET :lol::winkgrin:
Love all the ideas!!! And very glad to know that my husband isn’t the only one!!
I have never had good luck with the timing valves. They malfunctioned and didn’t solve the problem. We now turn the light on in the hydrant room when the water is turned on. Turn the light off when the water is turned off. At least when it gets dark you can see the light was left on (and also the water) so it doesn’t run all night.
Have him turn his watch around on his wrist. When he checks the time, seeing his watch backwards will remind him that the water is on (or whatever he is supposed to remember).
put a hair scrunchy on the faucet. When you turn the water on, slip it on your wrist. It will remind you to turn the water off. When you do, put the scrunchy back on the faucet.
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put a hair scrunchy on the faucet. When you turn the water on, slip it on your wrist. It will remind you to turn the water off. When you do, put the scrunchy back on the faucet.[/QUOTE]
Along the same lines, dollars stores have those cheap plastic bracelets, put one around each faucet. Put it on when you turn it on- hopefully reminds you to turn off the water.
…and help me remember the eggs I put on the stove to hard boil. I have no patience and always go start something else.
ps yes the stove does have a timer, I never think about it.
These are all such fantastic ideas, I have to say though, the cat food tin one is brilliant!!! Cell phone I don’t always have with me, a bracelet/turned watch/cap I would probably be able to ignore… but a cat food tin around my neck - no chance of leaving that water running, particularly if it is unwashed :lol:
I force myself to stand right there with the tank till it is full. I don’t have a phone and I am so easily distracted, the only thing that works for me is babysitting the tank. It is a self imposed rule I force myself to obey.
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I have fear of float valves, except for those rare occasions in which I can rig a way that the valve is NOT in the pasture with the horses. I need a really loooong water trough! [/QUOTE]
Our float valve works well, but I test it each time before I walk away. Still, if the tub is not dead level, it can fill and overflow without tripping the valve. Or it could fall off the trough - to prevent that I use one of those quick release clamps to clamp it to the rim of the trough.
If the horses are apt to play with it, I’d say it’s not the way to go.
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…and help me remember the eggs I put on the stove to hard boil. I have no patience and always go start something else.
ps yes the stove does have a timer, I never think about it.[/QUOTE]
I’d focus on trying to always set the timer, not trying to remember the eggs.
