Where is my hot water stop tap? Loft or airing cupboard

[DYLANE]

Hello
My hot kitchen tap has stopped working and I think it is the washer.
I want to unscrew the tap to take the washer out to get the size so that I can replace it.
But, I don't know where the stop tap is for the hot water taps.

I have one tank in the loft and one tank in the airing cupboard.

I can see a tap on the airing cupboard tank but can not find the tap in the loft due to the system up there being half covered with insulation etc plus as well as being very tall I have a few mobility issues at the his time.

Will the hot water stop tap be in the loft or in the airing cupboard?

cheers

 

[Robiow70]

I guess by tank you mean cylinder in the cupboard. The pipe that comes out from the top, will be your hot water feed to your taps.

There should be a valve on this pipe, normally a gate valve, that will stop the HW flow to the tap.

May be a good time to fit a isolation valve.

Hope this helps Rob

Pic would be good

 

[rjm2k]

If there is one of these on the hot pipe feeding the tap then you can simply turn this using a screwdriver

Failing that, there should be one of these

Either on the pipe coming right out of the top of your cylinder in the airing cupboard and/or on the pipe going into the very bottom of your cylinder. Closing either of those should stop the hot water (there will be some left in the pipe that will need to be run off first by opening the tap).

 

[DYLANE]

Cheers guys, thats been a great help.
I had already tried the red circular tap in the airing cupboard and running off the water through the tap but it didn't seem to completely stop running. Maybe I just didn't leave it long enough. Will try again.

 

[rjm2k]

There will be a number of those gate valves, you need to make sure you close the correct one, either the one at the very top, or the one at the very bottom. There should be 2 more pipes connected to the cylinder between the pipes you are interested in, don't alter those.


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[Nige F]

Cheers guys, thats been a great help.
I had already tried the red circular tap in the airing cupboard and running off the water through the tap but it didn't seem to completely stop running. Maybe I just didn't leave it long enough. Will try again.

It won`t stop completely - they all do that , guv - as long as it`s not belting out . AND you let the hot cylinder cool completely ,ie. use the water for a bath and don`t re heat it . You`ll be able to work on the tap in the kitchen without being flooded or scalded

 

[JohnD]

If you really can't turn it off, you can close the main stopcock where the water comes into the house, usually near the kitchen sink, but could be just inside or outside your ftont gate. If you then drain the water, preferably using the cold tap in the bathroom, if that still runs with the stopcock off, then there will be no more water left to supply the hot tap. If nothing coming comes out of the cold bath tap, you will have to drain it drom a hot tap, but this is more wasteful of hot water.

There will be about a bathful of water in the loft tank.

 

[Diyisfun]

If you really can't turn it off, you can close the main stopcock where the water comes into the house, usually near the kitchen sink, but could be just inside or outside your ftont gate. If you then drain the water, preferably using the cold tap in the bathroom, if that still runs with the stopcock off, then there will be no more water left to supply the hot tap. If nothing coming comes out of the cold bath tap, you will have to drain it drom a hot tap, but this is more wasteful of hot water.

There will be about a bathful of water in the loft tank.

And could lead to other problems.
If you stop the water going into the hot tank, none will come out.
So you could turn the valve off at the cold water tank (at the bottom of tank)

 

[JohnD]

If you really can't turn it off