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.

😂😂😂

if you're not joking, you need to locate it, don't wait until you have water pissing from somewhere it shouldn't be!!!

Internal one under the sink and also know where the neighbour's (and ours ) is in the street when they had a leak from the bathroom pouring into our dining room while the house was empty and being renovated.

Yes, internal and external 🧘

@girlfriend44 well I know where everything is in this house! my hubby, on the other hand, knows nothing!! even when the man came to read the electric meter, he had to phone me to ask!! he had only walked past it at least twice a day for the past 26 years (not knowing it was the external meter cupboard!) !! dont ask him where the stop cock is, he wont know!

Yes but it's painted closed (not by us), so I have to turn it off in the street where the water meter is.

Thank god. Thought it was just me!

I stand corrected! I didn't have one at my old house, I don't know anyone else who has one but it's much easier than fiddling with the stop cock. I had to turn it off yesterday as the connection to the dishwasher was loose and I had water dripping onto the floor. I turned that off before I turned the lever for that pipe, just to be on the safe side.

i do,
it is a switch

Yep but it's bloody seized thanks to last owner opening it fully

Based on my Father's usual comment - it will be where I last left it...
...and he is usually right!

Yes … and DH knows how to turn it off in the garden too .. he’s written me instructions …I have come downstairs in the morning to wet feet before

Yes. Slightly off topic but I've always wondered why it was named a stop 'cock'?!

Yes. We've also got next doors in our basement 🤣

Of course. And the emergency one outside on the rd for when it breaks.

Yes it’s under the kitchen sink (behind a million bottles of cleaning crap) which was fun when a pipe burst also under the kitchen sink and I had to face the full force of spraying water to reach the feckin thing. I was drenched.

Yes but I can't get to it so it doesn't help much. I'm a wheelchair user in a ground floor flat and it's on the middle of three stories in the stairwell hidden behind a wall panel.

Yes but the damn thing is impossible to get to, unless you pull out a very tightly fitted washing machine - crappy kitchen design and can't afford to change it.

Get a Surestop. It can be on the wall, big blue switch just like a light switch.

same here

One of the (many) moments of realisation I experienced when DH was in hospital last year was that I have no fecking idea where our stop cock resides. My late mum had a ‘Sure stop’ blue button fitted and that was in the downstairs loo. DH and I live in a large-ish Victorian terraced house with multiple hidey places where it could be. 😬

I do, both internal and in the street.

I hope by starting this thread OP at least one person may be saved some distress at some point in the future by being able to act quickly.

So pleased I'm not the only one. I felt such a muppet when the plumber asked me but he couldn't locate it either.
1920s house. No idea which renovation in the past has hidden it but the culprit is long gone

Under the kitchen sink

We only have the one out on the road apparently.
When we moved in we couldn’t locate it but our neighbours on each side are plumbers (very useful!) and they said that there is only the mains one.
seems weird to me but hey ho.

Yes. We have 2.
Also be sure to give them a turn every six months so they don’t seize up.