Plumbing in Idaho freezes in exterior walls, crawls, and houses closed without a plan. It also fails where canal water and a high water table wet a basement that people blame on a pipe. Shut the main if a line has split. Know that valve before you need it. If the meter moves with fixtures off, the leak is live, and a still meter means look at the ground.
Freeze and thaw add a special mess in the valley. A warm afternoon runs melt toward the foundation, and the next hard night freezes the line you just used. Sort roof water, canal water, and supply water before anyone opens a wall. A cable clears a clog. It does not fix a belly, roots, or a vent packed with frost, and irrigation lines are not the house supply.
Water heaters weep at the base while everyone watches the furnace. Name gas or electric, the vent, the pan, and the shutoff. If you smell trouble at a gas vent, stop using it. A muddy well after a thaw, or a pressure tank that short-cycles, belongs in the first sentence on a rural place. Do not send a sump into a line it was never meant to feed.
Finished basements hide a leak until it travels, and clay carries that water farther than you think. Say if access is poor. Hose bibs on the windward wall should be shut from inside before the cold locks them. Canal rise and melt will test the grade and the window wells even when the call started as a pipe. Say if the wet spot followed a thaw or an irrigation day.
Say leak, freeze, well, drain, or water heater, and the town. Say if you can shut the water off and if the heat is on. A sagging ceiling is not a bucket you live with. Canal water in the basement is not a faucet story, and a still meter should send the visit outside. Call the number on this page.