This is your monthly reminder to go and operate every water shutoff valve in your home, including the main shutoff if you have...
This is your monthly reminder to go and operate every water shutoff valve in your home, including the main shutoff if you have access to it – those things do seize up if they’re not operated frequently, and you don’t want to be discovering that fact for the first time while a busted faucet handle is blasting two gallons a minute onto your kitchen floor.
Speaking from experience?
Afraid not. My experience of this particular scenario involves discovering that the kitchen sink had no shutoff valves at all, because the previous occupant was an old school do-it-yourselfer who apparently just killed the main shutoff every single time they needed to change a washer.
(As an aside, whenever you see those statistics about boomer dads having better DIY skills than their millennial counterparts, remember that a. those figures are based on self reporting, and b. boomers as a group vastly overestimate their own DIY competence, as those of us who’ve had to deal with the fruits of their labours can readily attest!)