Hello I'm a new poster (with, I think, an entry level question).
I'm trying to shut off the water going into the upstairs toilet cistern so that I can replace a faulty inlet valve in it. This is proving difficult.
On my loft tank there are 2 pipes emerging at the bottom, both with taps. One is a simple T-shaped tap head and the other is one of the red round type tap handles. They were stiff but I've managed to close both. However, the toilet cistern is still filling up as normal after 3 flushes - not even any apparent slowdown in the inflow. The sink and bath taps are also both still working. The only difference seems to be that the sink tap (a mono tap) isn't working when pushed to the 'cold' position, the mono bath filler tap seems unaffected. Have I missed something?
[EDIT (sorry, actually there are 3 pipes coming out of the bottom of the loft tank but I think the third (with no tap at the tank) is the cold inlet for the power shower pump. ] There are a couple of other taps in the bathroom cupboard where the hot water cistern is. These are on pipes going (I think) into the shower pump. These are Cold Inlet and Hot Inlet into the shower pump. None of these seem movable and I assume they're irrelevant.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I'm trying to shut off the water going into the upstairs toilet cistern so that I can replace a faulty inlet valve in it. This is proving difficult.
On my loft tank there are 2 pipes emerging at the bottom, both with taps. One is a simple T-shaped tap head and the other is one of the red round type tap handles. They were stiff but I've managed to close both. However, the toilet cistern is still filling up as normal after 3 flushes - not even any apparent slowdown in the inflow. The sink and bath taps are also both still working. The only difference seems to be that the sink tap (a mono tap) isn't working when pushed to the 'cold' position, the mono bath filler tap seems unaffected. Have I missed something?
[EDIT (sorry, actually there are 3 pipes coming out of the bottom of the loft tank but I think the third (with no tap at the tank) is the cold inlet for the power shower pump. ] There are a couple of other taps in the bathroom cupboard where the hot water cistern is. These are on pipes going (I think) into the shower pump. These are Cold Inlet and Hot Inlet into the shower pump. None of these seem movable and I assume they're irrelevant.
Thanks in advance for any advice.