Oh interesting. I thought electrical tape was the only thing. I also like to do “code plus.” I’ll get some friction tape.

Yeah once the micro is plugged in this never gets touched. And it’s on its own circuit.

Thanks for the tips. That’s just what I’ll do. Do you think it’s important to mount it to the stud or will an old work box do?

I am lucky. I had no idea this was going on back here. Here’s the back of the scorched cabinet.

And here is my new cap job.

I’m going to cover it with a plate and cut a hole in the melamine just as you suggested.

The blue box is one of those kind that is supposed to latch into the drywall, but the melamine is cut too tight for that to have ever worked so it’s just busted out when I pulled on cabinet.

It looks like my client fails when I try to add photos. Here’s a link to the pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aQmzYZvssHRkSBUG7

One of the top 100 reasons I left.

And I assume the line branches before it travels up into the walls? Or is there a chance it branches after it leaves the crawl space, in which case you could consider opening a wall for the valve.

Heh. Not even fixing it.

I can’t imagine it would be more than a couple hundred bucks assuming they can find an accessible point for it. Mine is in an unfinished room at the corner of the basement where the main line comes in and replacing it took the plumber life twenty minutes.

You can ask the plumber about coordinating with the city for shutoff. Maybe they’d know a guy?

But definitely don’t mess with it if. In my case I couldn’t find my external shutoff when I needed that internal one replaced so I had the city come locate it for me. They uncovered the plate, tested the valve and it broke immediately. Fixing it was a major excavation. The city guy told me how lucky I was that I hadn’t found it and tested it myself.

Although completely reasonable, I fear that your conclusion is inaccessible for most folks.

And as a pedestrian, I’m all for a system that’s capable of reducing distracted driving.

Malazan Book of the Fallen is one of the best brick walls I’ve ever put my head through.