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Saffy:
When I try to turn off my water supply what I think is the stopcock, nothing happens - cold water still flows at same pressure. It's a 1/2inch tap affair under the kitchen skin. Is it possible for those taps still turn and yet totally fail to valve the flow?  Does this mean I got to turn off the water in the street to change this tap or do those pipe freeze things work?

p4203:
it could be the stop tap for a outside tap if on half inch

burgerman:
 Hi there, we have a inline stopcock/tap, which tyrns fine but the internals are seperated, meaning you can turn it allday long with no effect  :doh:

 As for freezing, I have used it for a radiater swap, and it worked fine, but has a very fine window of use  :shock:
  Not sure what pressure it would hold  8-[  :lol:

  I would bite th ebullet n turn off outside and check/replace the tap

Saffy:
I'll get new tap - ptfe tape - borrow the tap key thing from one of the neighbours and get him to show me where it is outside (he's 98 years old bless him) and he'll tell me which houses I need to put notes through door hopefully.

All I wanted to do was swap out our broken shower  and it turns into drama :lol:

Range Rover Blues:
I've used the freezing thing and it was fine.  I must admit I really didn't think it was going to work but hell fire it did the job, mains water pressure for plenty of time to add a couple of stop taps under the sink.

I'd replace the cranky old tap with a 90 degree ball valve, they are self-cleaning unlike gate valves which are self-contaminating and allow better water flow than the "tap" type valves, whatever they are called, the ones you turn for ages hoping something is happening.

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