I knew my day was going sideways when it was going to be necessary to change into a bathing suit and get wet in the customer’s master bath in order to find out what was causing a leak into the basement. 

The smart home market is booming. There are now connected devices in practically every room of the house — smart lights, smart cameras, smart door locks, smart refrigerators, smart HVAC systems, and yes, smart plumbing devices. 

The Detection Group (TDG), with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, currently protects over 50 million square feet of floor space in well over 400 commercial buildings across the United States.

Water is a precious and increasingly scarce resource. 

Plumbing contractors across the country are receiving more calls than ever before from prospective customers who are looking to have a flow-based smart leak control system installed in their home or business. 

Moen and Lennar, one of the nation’s leading homebuilders, are joining forces to put the Flo by Moen Smart Water Shutoff in Lennar homes nationwide.

The Smart Water Valve+Meter, designed and developed by Building36, intelligently monitors and responds to issues, the company explains. 

The SensXtend by LeakSmart extension kit with water sensor includes a SensXtend dock, rope sensor, extension cable and LeakSmart water sensor. 

I have a photograph taken in Levittown, New York, sometime in the late 1940s. 

Water leaks just may be a homeowner’s worst nightmare. While individual leaks may seem tiny, they can cause enormous damage.