Valve boxes house the control points in all utility systems like water, gas, electricity, cable TV and telephone. These control points, or valves in the case of water and gas, are used to turn off the supply in case of emergencies, or simply for inspection and meter readings.
The average homeowner will probably be most familiar with the boxes used in sprinkler systems for residential landscaping purposes. When leaks spring up in your household plumbing you may usually have to find the valve box fast to turn off the water supply. But besides their use in homes these units are used in municipal parks, industrial business parks, greenbelts, schools, golf courses, and so on.
Valve boxes were traditionally made out of steel or pre-cast concrete, but the trend these days has been to make them out of environmentally friendly plastics like polyolefin that is stabilized to withstand wear and tear and is resistant to Ultraviolet degradation. These materials are cheaper than steel or concrete and they are formulated such that they do not leak dangerous chemicals into the soil.
Because valve boxes are used to house safety valves and switches that are used in emergency management many manufacturers these days are building "homing" devices in them that make it easy to locate them in overgrown or disused areas. The devices may be no more than a magnet or metal insert that makes the unit easy to find with a simple metal detector, but when you need to find the box in a hurry this may come in handy.
But things are changing and finding your valve box these days may be as simple as looking out your living room window. For the trendy, fashionable homeowner some of these units are now designed to look like rocky outcrops in your lawn, giving it an attractive, "pristine" appearance that adds beauty and definition to any landscape. These imitation rocks come with names like Granite Rock, Fake River Rock, Boulder Rock, Landscape Rock and Sandstone Rock. And do they stand out! You have a choice of colors from granite to sandstone to pebble beach.
With these realistic looking imitations you can give your lawn or garden a unique touch. As has been said by some, under the right circumstances fake beats real every time. That may be overstating it, but these "rocky-looking" imitations can come in handy when you want to add the aesthetic effect to what would otherwise be an eyesore.
You can use them to cover such things as water valves, sprinkler heads, electricity control boxes, and water mains covers. Or perhaps it is that glaring exposed piping that you can't hide or move to some other secluded area of the lawn or garden.
The trend in landscaping design these days is to maximize the thematic beauty of the landscape. This leaves no room sometimes for any exposed objects that could subtract from the aesthetic effect. For this reason even the traditional valve boxes come in colors that blend in perfectly with the rest of the greenery, or the sandy patches and pebble spaces. With the imitation rock valve boxes the thematic effect can be taken to a new level.
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