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Yes, it looks definitley the part 1 valve. But it doesn't have a bolt to turn it out off the fitting from inside of the tank...

When 4 is undone, the whole valve will come off from the tank. Why would you undo 1 and pull down 2? 2 is the main rising pipe which goes downstairs to the incoming main pipe. It cannot be pulled down. Sorry but I am trying to understand your logic here.

Yup I am going to fit the Lever Valve replacing the old gate isolation valve which is also intermittently non working.

So it must be undone from the back of the tank where the elbow connects the valve? Most of the Youtube demonstrations were undoing them from the inside of the tank, taking off just the valve part, leaving the fittings on the tank, and just attaching the new valve on the old fittings. I was...

I have got a new float valve type 2 from Srewfix to replace this old one leaking. But it looks different from any float valves I have seen. I couldn't see any bolts to undo the valve from inside of the tank. Would it be just matter of turning the whole valve round to take off from the tank? If...

Thanks for the alert. The lid is fully matching to the tank in size, and colour. The top plastic cover around the lid is fully removed, and also some part of the wrapping around the tank too. I will not be drilling or cutting the tank at all. Just going to replace the gate valve, and then...

Took my caliper and read the outer diameter of the cold water tank pipe. Both top and below of the gate valve read 21.85 mm.

Yes, this is one bad messy job indeed with the imperial size pipes what have you, making the job more complicated. :( I will go up to the loft, and check out the cold water tank fill pipe sizes, and think out the best option for the lever valve installation.

Yes, I think you are right. The grey plastic pipe above it seems for the upstair shower, and it must had been replaced at the time of the installtion. The JET SWET has max. water pressure handling figure of 75 bar on the official spec. I am not sure how strong is 75 bar, and what bar would be...

Also looking at this device for blocking water in live water pipes for carrying out the valve replacements. I would only need the 22mm or 3/4" one.

I was looking at the freezing the pipes option on youtube, and it also seemed a good way to deal with the isolating pipe jobs without shutting off water. But there weren't that many youtube demonstrations on the actual working processes.

Great info. Thanks.

Great point. I took my caliper to the loft and measured the outside diameter of the pipe going into the cold water tank, and it was 22mm dot. But I was not sure whether the inside diameter of the pipe must be measured for the correct reading. The outside diameter of the pipe is definitely...

More demonstration of the EasyFit Isolating Valve.

Yes, to me it seems better idea to install the Easyfit isolator before the old gate valve, and then it stops the water, which will enable the gate valve replacement possible, or just keep using the both valves until the old gate valve fails with leakage. If / when that happens, just stop the...

The pipe to the cold water tank in the loft is 22mm, and the 22mm version of EF Isolator valve kit is over £100 - £160 (Screwfix). So it is rather an expensive piece of kit. But if it does the job easy and reliable, then maybe worth it? Maybe I don't have to even look at the incoming mains...

How would this product like? Seems something to consider for this type of gate valve malfunction case?

Great idea. Yes, I agree that we must know where the outside stop valve is in the street accurately in case the incoming mains gate valve fails.

Here are the photos for the incoming mains gate valve. The pipe diverts to the right to the kitchen mains tap, and also goes up to the cold tank in the loft. 2x of the pipes beside the mains incoming tap are probably the cold tank in the loft outgoing taps to the hot immersion boiler, washing...