Stopcock

[Vikram12]

Any suggestions on locating a stopcock, doesn't sound good, but any suggestions would help as the washer on a bath tap needs to be changed.

Thanks

[gazzawazza]

The stopcock is usually found on the rising main which more often than not is below the sink.  Have the units in the kitchen been moved about? do you know where the sink was originally?  In our house the stopcock is behind the oven (which is the original location for the sink).  I have to remove the kickboard then lay flat on the floor to reach ours.  Try asking your next door neighbours where theirs are.  Hope this helps.

PS if you still can't find it then there may be a small valve on the pipework leading to the bath taps which can be turned off ny a slot-head screwdriver. 

[smudge]

I know we have a tap under our sink which my husband turns now & then to regulate the cold water pressure. But our stopcock is outside our front gate. If you look around, you should find a small square metal cover, if you lift this up, you will see the stop **** handle about a foot down it.

Hope this helps!

[smudge]

How odd - that was of course stopc0ck!

[jake-the-peg]

Looking at it smudge I think you may have accidentli inserted a space after stop af the first instance of the word was unaffected.

Is your Freudian slip showing? :c)

[smudge]

Yes Jake, I realised that after my second posting as gazza had typed stopcock & it was fine! I'll hitch my slip up now! :o}

[Octavius]

Ask your neighbour where theirs is located as this might help locate yours.  Follow the pipes down as they may have an isolation valve which will save having to turn off the mains at the stopcock.

I have a mains stopcock about 3 feet down in my front garden and one under the floor boards at the back of my front room.

[landie]

Smudge, that tapyour husband turns, is your in-house stopcock. The other is the one I lost my finger under.

[gazzawazza]

...And following on from landie, the one outside is only supposed to be used by the water company.