Is the screw on the side of this thing the open/close control?

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Downstairs toilet flush has broken, and looking at the water input pipe, there's this metal connector with the screw on the side. Is that screw the means of shutting off the water? The upstairs toilets have different, plastic shutoff valves.

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There's nothing else accessible; the rest of the pipework is entirely boxed in, with no obvious access panels.
 
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That screw is shown partly open. Fully open the screw slot would be in line with the pipe. Fully closed is a quarter turn so that the screw slot is across the pipe. Sometimes these things leak or break when you turn them as they haven't usually been touched for years so be prepared to turn the water off at the mains if that happens.
 
lf it does break, will any Screwfix-style isolation valve of the correct size work in there?
 
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Gently turn the screw back and forth , gradually moving further to the off position. If it is stuck then you have to look at further upstream to turn a main stop cock off if the toilet is mains fed.
 
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