To ask if you know where your stopcock is?

[girlfriend44]

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, and I also bought a thingy for turning off the water in the street because the tap in the house was jammed for a while.
Now I get the plumber to check it when he does the boiler service to make sure it would turn if I ever need it.

Yes, both of them,

New house and Yes. It was behind the built in oven, so that was handy, and that's why I'm in the process of remodelling my kitchen.

Yes, we didn't have one just had to turn it off in the street and now we have an indoors one too. Also had to turn it off before when dh was fitting a new shower and water was spraying all over the place.

Ours is next to the front door.

Yes. One is under the kitchen sink and the other one is by the toilet in the bathroom behind a natty little removable panel installed by the guy who re-did our bathroom (the previous owners had tiled it in - the massive twats).

Yes but you have to pull the washing machine out to get to it which is a pain!

Yes.
But only since we had a flood from the boiler.
Lesson learned. 😢

Yes I do.

Yes, it's in the cupboard under the kitchen sink, with the meter.

yes

Yes it’s next the gas main by the cooker.

Well the other main after the meter.

Yes thanks, day 1 checklist stuff when moving into a property.

Mine is under the washing machine, set in the concrete floor, which is ... not ideal. Fortunately the outside stopcock is easily accessible and only turns off one other house

Yes. Surely it's like knowing where your fusebox is?

I assumed all adults knew this.

Yes but I have a Surestop, basically a big blue switch that turns it off via electricity (!). It's actually on the wall in the kitchen and can't be missed. I would recommend one, much easier than searching fir a stopcock and /or hurting yoyr hard turning the bloody thing!

Yes - under the kitchen sink. Behind all the random cleaning supplies, spare vases, shoe polish and plastic bags.

Yep under the kitchen sink behind the cleaning stuff

The internal one is in the cupboard under the stairs and the external one is in the pavement outside. I also know where the nearest fire hydrant is and that our street is at the end of the public main.
My last house had 3 stop cocks. One in the road, the original " internal" stop tap was in the garden just outside the bay window and a later internal one was inside our pantry.
I also know the location of the sewers serving our street and the school behind us.
I worked for 10 years in the water industry!

Yes, in the kitchen!
Very important thing to know!

Yes. Both the inside one and one immediately outside near the road, which we use a long pointy thing for.

Never needed either, thankfully!

Couldn’t find mine anywhere and neither could the insurance company when we had a leak. Ripped kitchen out to fit a new one and it was behind the washing machine.
New one is fitted in an easily accessible place.

I've never heard of that - does it work if there's a power cut?

(or if a water leak has got into the electrics and flipped the main trip?!)

Yes, it’s in our garage, easily accessible, which is lucky as almost every tap has burst since we bought this house!
Last house was under the floorboards (carpeted), and we only found out when we had a leak and a neighbour spotted me trying to turn the water off in the street and told me where theirs was. I certainly wouldn’t have thought to look there! We made sure to tell our buyers that info when we moved.