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So, in the ongoing path of discovery that is buying a house and finding the odd stuff that someone has done to it, I have a 'wall' in the bathroom which I believe the isolating valve for the toilet fill it behind. There is a panel and screws to access it, so assume it's simple enough. Now supposing I find that stopcock behind there, what is the likelihood that it's seized/will leak once I close it off to replace the toilet fill mechanism which is now so slow the bucket gets used a lot to flush?
Just trying to work out how much of screwfix to buy before I start rather than my usual trick of 3 trips out during the process of doing a 'simple' job.
Also thinking of re-doing a bit of the pipework to give myself a more accessible stop-cock.
Any accurate guesses welcomed 🙂
Cheers
If it's a relatively modern installation, chances are you'll find one of these, which should be fine.
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Even if it's an older valve which drips, you can always turn off the mains stopcock as well or a valve nearer the cold tank. Just stuff the void full of towels to catch any stray drips.
save removing the panel, just turn off the main stopcock to the house?
Much easier and should lead to less problems.
My stop cock was under the floor of a broom cupboard. I left it there and installed one of these after it.
It is a remote controlled stop valve. You have a remote button with an air tube to the valve itself. Mine is on the wall of the cupboard and I just press it to turn off all the water in the house.
Think regulations say you must have a stop cock so I left mine in.
Screwfix sell them.
I've thought about the main stop cock. but there are 2 problems with that, I have 40 gallon tank to drain (so a lot of water to discard) which fills the loo and supplies the shower, there is also a long flat run to the shower where if you cut the supply off you end up with air lock that takes a fair bit of faffing around to clear (garden hose into the tank in the loft to force water down the pipework! So I at least know the problems with that.
The Surestop look interesting - I have space to fit a more localised manual stopcock - it just means there will still be one behind the wall as well, and I'll definitely not remove it all together.
Bathroom could do with a repaint anyway btw 🙁
Cheers for the replies so far gents.
The nice pictuure of the isolating valve, dont turn the nice screw anti clockwise and then remove it and allow it to drop on the floor, as water will squirt out of the hole its left, soaking you as you hunt for the missing screw, while shouting for help/mops/buckets etc
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