My first post so please be gentle with me.
I have plumbing and drains insurance cover with BG and called them because I have an outflow pipe that is leaking.
I live in a flat on the first floor of a block that is three floors high.
The engineer that came thought it might be the ball valve in the water tank. So he has a look and asks me which is the stopcock to turn off the mains supply. And herein lies the problem.
I didn't have the faintest idea which stopcock turns off the mains.
I have an old Potterton Kingfisher with is more than 25 years old and there is a water tank (or is it two?) above the boiler. There are four stopcocks on the pipes and they are all jammed. The man told me that I would need a plumber to replace the stopcock and he said that they may have to turn off the water supply from the street.
Does anybody know if this is likely to cost me hundreds of pounds for a plumber to fix my stopcocks?
I am a particularly skint nurse and have no idea at all about plumbing issues....well, not of the water supply type anyway.
I am kind of hoping for a rough idea so that I can brace myself for asking family to lend me the cash. The outflow leak is intermittent at the moment
and I am hoping to avoid it becoming a torrent.
Thank you for taking the time to read my post,
Nursie
I have plumbing and drains insurance cover with BG and called them because I have an outflow pipe that is leaking.
I live in a flat on the first floor of a block that is three floors high.
The engineer that came thought it might be the ball valve in the water tank. So he has a look and asks me which is the stopcock to turn off the mains supply. And herein lies the problem.
I didn't have the faintest idea which stopcock turns off the mains.
I have an old Potterton Kingfisher with is more than 25 years old and there is a water tank (or is it two?) above the boiler. There are four stopcocks on the pipes and they are all jammed. The man told me that I would need a plumber to replace the stopcock and he said that they may have to turn off the water supply from the street.
Does anybody know if this is likely to cost me hundreds of pounds for a plumber to fix my stopcocks?
I am a particularly skint nurse and have no idea at all about plumbing issues....well, not of the water supply type anyway.
I am kind of hoping for a rough idea so that I can brace myself for asking family to lend me the cash. The outflow leak is intermittent at the moment
and I am hoping to avoid it becoming a torrent.
Thank you for taking the time to read my post,
Nursie