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If you can get to the main valve while water is still spreading, close it first and call after, because the damage curve flattens the moment the pressure stops.

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Triage happens on the phone. The plumber wants to know what's wet, whether that's supply water or drain water, and whether the main has already been closed, and those answers reorder everything that comes next. Supply water means kill the pressure and then repair. Drain water means nothing more goes down any fixture in the house until the line is open. Basements raise the stakes in this region in a way they don't in warmer places. When something upstairs lets go, gravity delivers all of it to the lowest finished space in the house, and that's where the furnace, the water heater and the panel usually live too. So a plumber walking into a wet basement is thinking about what to keep water away from before thinking about pipe. On a well property outside town, the sequence changes again, since cutting the pump breaker is what actually stops the water rather than a valve on a city service. Frozen and split lines during a cold week are their own category, and part of the visit is figuring out whether one place failed or whether several are about to.

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Usually on the basement wall on the side facing the street, right where the service pipe comes through the foundation. There's normally a valve within a foot or two of that penetration. Worth locating on a quiet evening, since finding it in the dark with water coming down is a poor time to start.
Then the pump is the source, and shutting the breaker to it is the equivalent step. There's typically a valve at the pressure tank as well. Both are worth identifying in advance on rural properties out toward Rathdrum, Cheney or Deer Park.
If water is near outlets, the panel, or the equipment down there, killing the relevant breakers before anyone wades in is a sensible safety step. Beyond that, leave the appliances alone and let a plumber assess what's been in the water.
No. The urgent part is stopping the water and making the house safe to be in. Some repairs get done on the spot, others are stabilized and finished properly once materials and access line up, and a plumber should be plain with you about which is which.

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