Water & Gas Safety Valve
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WAGS stands for Water and Gas Safety valve. The WAGS valve is designed to shut off the water supply (plus gas supply for gas-fired heaters) in the event of a water leak from a hot water heater, thus minimizing water damage and possible gas leakage. The valve can be installed on all styles of water heaters. The valve is fully mechanical and requires no external power supply.
Your water heater will eventually fail and leak! Most water heaters fail within 7 -10 years. That’s about 5 million tank failures EVERY year. With out a WAGS valve, a leaking tank keeps refilling and leaking. The WAGS prevents disastrous floods and untold damage to your property.
The WAGS sits in a drip pan under the water heater and is activated when leaking water accumulates to a level of 3/4” in the pan. Once activated, the valve shuts off water and gas supply, indicated by a red pop-up tab.
HOW DOES IT WORK????
A drip pan is installed under your water heater. The WAGS valves attached between the water source and the water heater. When leaking water fills the pan a depth of 3/4”, a water-soluble fiber element in the WAGS dissolves, releasing a powerful spring-loaded piston that closes the flow to the tank. In gas-fired water heaters, this action also breaks a fuse that shuts off the gas supply to the heater. The British Royal Air Force first used this fiber-element technology to inflate life jackets automatically. It is highly reliable, totally mechanical and require no additional power sources.