Recent content by MrTheSpoon

I'm unable to turn off the water outside as, due to the age of this house and my neighbours' houses, there are 12 houses controlled by just one mains water stopcock. I've managed to reduce the leak down to a slow drip (by wrapping a ton of PTFE tape round the tap and semi closing it, so I...

Unfortunately the tap is quite old (at least from before I bought the house in 2003) so the gland is a encrusted with sediment. I have tried tightening it but I think if I loosen it first, it'll break. As I can't shut off the water before it, I'll need a backup tap or something in case it does...

Hi, Obviously I'm new to this forum but was wondering if you could help me. The picture shows the external water mains (blue pipe) coming into my house in my kitchen under the sink. The old cut off tap (sideways) and the water meter with new cut off tap (to the left). The old cut off tap...