To ask if you know where your stopcock is?

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If you need to turn off your water at home. Do you know where your stopcock is?

If not might be good to find out.

Yes I do.

Yes

Yes I do, but had to get a plumber to find it after we moved here. It’s behind the toilet which is in a built in vanity thing. So that’s handy.

Nobody can find ours. Plumbers have tried. So we bought one of those iron things to turn the water off at the street. It’ll have to do instead.

Of course.

Yes, thank you.

Yes. I'd never actually turned it until after DH died, but I did know where it is.

With hindsight, there is a lot if stuff he did that I should have taken more interest in though.

Yes . Behind the toilet . In our last house it was in the cupboard under the kitchen sink .

Yes.
this house relatively straightforward in the kitchen.

an old house it was under a panel in the hall floor in front of the front door!

Its wherever the man left it when he did the thing that its needed for...? In the spidery cupboard i dont go in with the cylinder head gasket probably.

Yes, but only because somebody came to read the metre and we discovered it was out on the street in front of next door’s house. Apparently this is becoming more common with metered supplies, and why many people who would previously have immediately found their stopcock somewhere obvious like under the sink don’t know where it is.

Yes - under the sink in the utility room.

We turn the water off if we're away overnight or longer. My aunt's house flooded once when she was away on holiday because of a fault with her washing machine connection, so lesson learnt there.

Mine is where I left it: in the cupboard under the sink.

Yes.

But we have a new lever one rather the old type because we had a leak fixed last Monday that was just inside the kitchen wall and before the stop cock. DH managed to do a temporary fix last Sunday night.

Although before we had the kitchen replaced 20 yrs ago the stopcock was actually behind the kitchen cupboard with no hole cut in the back to be able to use it.

Snap! No one can find ours - a total mystery!

Yes and I know where the one at work is as well.

A what?? 😂😂😂

Yes. Moved into an old house where it was behind the loo.
Have since moved the water supply and put on a new stopcock that is very visible and easy to turn.

For anyone in an old house with a difficult to reach stop cock, or who has dexterity challenges, look at having a SureStop switch fitted, its a godsend.

Yes the main one is in the same cupboard has the fuse box and there is also two more one in the kitchen but that only turns water off in the kitchen and there is one in the bathroom that just turn water off in the bathroom.

We don't have one. Or it remains a mystery to us and all plumbers. We have to turn it off at street.

Same here! We have to turn off in the street

All the houses here have it underneath the vestibule floor... Quite why the architect in the '50s thought that was a good idea we shall never know.

Yes, both the internal stopcock and the external mains stopcock. Both a total PITA to get to, but that's old houses for you...

Yes, almost the first thing we established when we moved in.

Ours is under the sink but seized up after a new boiler was installed (thanks,British Gas!).We now turn it on and off from the street.