What tool do I need to open this stopcock cover?

Just a flat bladed screwdriver to prose it open at 2 o’clock?
Or something more specialised. It’s 90 miles away, and so I can’t just nip out and try.
TIA

I’ve used a screwdriver when I have needed to open one.

Crowbar underneath the lip at 2 O’Clock – You mioght struggle with a screw driver. If its stuck, try hitting the lid or the concrete casing to free it a bit.

The question is…what tool will I need to operate the stopcock after I’ve opened this stopcock cover?

A stopcock key ( or a toby key as I would call it) usually has a flat end to one of the handles for prising the lids.

Tool station, although I’m sure mine came with a short plastic thing that fitted into the meter like on the right in this picture.

The question is…what tool will I need to operate the stopcock after I’ve opened this stopcock cover?

Nope, just need to read the meter

Thanks all 👍

A water meter?

How modern. Hasn’t reached the provinces yet.

I open mine with just a large flat screwdriver. A polystyrene thing covered in spiders lives beneath…

A water meter?

Her Majesty’s normal Imperial unit is “inches of water column”.

Your newfangled metric measurement seems a touch coarse by comparison.

A 90-mile long flat-bladed screwdriver?

Two screwdrivers makes it easier if dirt has got into the seal, 2 O’clock and 11 O’clock. If you have a spare hand stick a third in at 6 O’clock for good measure.

A water meter?

How modern. Hasn’t reached the provinces yet.

Thats because there’s no shortage of the stuff up here…

Two screwdrivers makes it easier if dirt has got into the seal, 2 O’clock and 11 O’clock. If you have a spare hand stick a third in at 6 O’clock for good measure.

Even a stopped cock tells the right time three times a day

@maccruiskeen

Even a stopped cock tells the right time three times a day

Oh come on! thats asking a lot for Bojo?

NB – May have worked better on his thread…

Thats because there’s no shortage of the stuff up here…

EA and NE may disagree

Beware
I got bitten by a spider that lived underneath the polystyrrene blanking disc
He did not like the fact I was doing abit of B&E to his house (web) so bit my finger

prose it open

It’s going to take more than a few words