If all else fails you can turn off your main stopcock to stop water coming into your property and open all taps to drain the system of water, do your work, close all taps and then open main stopcock
How to turn off the water
- Thread starter Mark.A.
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Just check you're not on a shared supply before playing with the street stoptap- also good idea to make sure you know where street stoptap is and that it works before touching your internal stoptap- an otherwise ok-looking tap can fall to bits when its operated for the first time in forever!
Best off leaving water companies stopcocks alone as they are more likely to be in a worst condition than your internal.
Not sure where outside its located and wouldn't want to stop a neighbours water supply so I might give that a miss.Just have to try the antiquated ones indoors with some WD40
The easy thing would be to get someone in but km out of work so can't afford paying just for a tap washer.
Really good idea to find the outside one before attacking- water can make a right mess very quickly
True, but if theirs falls to bits & starts flooding it's their problem .....
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