My stop-cock dribbles.
(I'll wait here for people to make funny comments... all done? Oh, wait, one more there at the back. Dude, that just wasn't worth the effort. Don't give up the day job.)
I have a plumber booked to come round and replace it, as well as do some other work, but in the mean time it's dripping at a rate varying from four or five drops a second to one drop a second depending where it's set to. This is all going under the kitchen floor and soaking away in the earth and rubble beneath --- my house is built on brick piers.
Is there anything I can do about this? I don't have access to the outside tap --- I think it's been tarmacked over. This means that I really don't want to mess about with it too much in case a bit falls off. The mains pipe is a thick and chunky (and rusty) iron thing which is probably immune to any form of amateur pipe-freezing kit, not that I'd want to try.
The water's coming up the tap shaft which suggests the gland's gone. The further it's turned off, the less it dribbles, but the tap itself is nadgered and won't turn off completely. Besides, I need water...
(I'll wait here for people to make funny comments... all done? Oh, wait, one more there at the back. Dude, that just wasn't worth the effort. Don't give up the day job.)
I have a plumber booked to come round and replace it, as well as do some other work, but in the mean time it's dripping at a rate varying from four or five drops a second to one drop a second depending where it's set to. This is all going under the kitchen floor and soaking away in the earth and rubble beneath --- my house is built on brick piers.
Is there anything I can do about this? I don't have access to the outside tap --- I think it's been tarmacked over. This means that I really don't want to mess about with it too much in case a bit falls off. The mains pipe is a thick and chunky (and rusty) iron thing which is probably immune to any form of amateur pipe-freezing kit, not that I'd want to try.
The water's coming up the tap shaft which suggests the gland's gone. The further it's turned off, the less it dribbles, but the tap itself is nadgered and won't turn off completely. Besides, I need water...