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.

I doubt you will be laughing if you ever have the need to know where it is as water is pouring through your house.

Nope. I know where the stopcock is in my old house, but this one is a mystery.

I think ours is a ‘turn off in the street’ job as well - but I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t know. Going to ask DH soon and make sure I remember.

yes ours is outside the kitchen did a search when we had the new kitchen put in and found it

Yes, but it's in the room where the kitchen used to be. When I sell I will have to remember to label it (it's in a cubby hole in the study).

@rainbowunicorn Oh it was a joke 🙄 Jesus this place

Yep, in the en suite

Bless you @Bearpatch . I know exactly what you mean.😥

Yes, but mainly because the person who fitted my water meter after I'd moved into my newly-bought house told me mine was broken 😆I got round to getting it fixed quickly, and I was lucky because a few months later one of my taps just broke and water was pouring everywhere. Now I have several points to turn the water off if anything ever goes wrong.

Edited to add that the plumber I called round is rather handsome and now my go-to for any issues 😆

💕

Actually it works on water pressure, not electricity.

Yep - it’s attached to the skirting board in the little cloakroom in our hallway. Thank god I knew where it was when the ham-fisted idiot that I am managed to snap the tap in the kitchen sink off, sending water spraying across the room!

@GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut Sure Stop works on water pressure. They are brilliant.

Mine is in the sitting room, we moved the kitchen and used the old kitchen as a sitting room.
Must remember to mention it if we ever move!

Yes, it's right at the back of my saucepan cupboard, kind of round a bend and not the easiest thing to access

Which one?
And it's bugger all use if the leak is below the stopcock

Yes, because when the man came to fit a new water cylinder he immediately went outside our front door (flat), unscrewed a panel that I didn't even realise was a panel, and turned off the water using the stopcock thus revealed.

He also fitted a handy little inside one so that we could turn the water off without having to do that as part of the job.

Yes. And I turn it on and off a couple of times a year to make sure it doesn't seize. Also turn it off if away for a while.

Yes although we had to have it replaced not long after moving in because we had the landlord special of it being glossed over & couldn't be turned

Another Surestop fan here. So much easier than hunting for a stopcock

I don't think I do know actually 😬 if I did know I've completely forgotten

I do.....but having had to use if the other day, it didn't work which was odd. Luckily it was the loo I needed it for which has its own isolation valve anyway so I used that.

Need to get that main one sorted out!

So glad you said this as I'm thinking shit, I only know where the kitchen one is but not the bathroom....!

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

yeah some muppet had done that here too, then when we got to it, it couldn't be used, the one on the street was in a hole with another 5, not tagged, the pipe freeze stuff wasn't working and in the end we had to get the water company out. Years ago, so don't remember all the details, but the ones on the street are all now tagged & we have a new one under the sink too.

Yes. Although to switch it off, I'll have to brave the overgrown climbing rose to get into the garage to get the screwdriver to unscrew the panel.

Not the best design.