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Just fixed a toilet cistern that required me to turn off the water at the inline valve. However, now that I have used the valve, it has started to leak around the middle (where the screwdriver slot is). It isn't bad but it will need fixing - so how to do it without turning off the supply to the house?
Any ideas / tips would be most welcome.
not easily
i'd just turn off your water at internal stopcock, open upstairs and downstairs taps to drain system, flush toilet a few times to drain that pipe, then replace the inline valve
30mins work tops for a DIYer (assuming you are not a bodger)
freezing if you cannot turn off the main stop tap.. but be quick!!!
Sunday bump
have you tried tapping, and I mean [i]tapping[/i] the slotted cicular section with a spanner or similar? It does stop it if it's only a weep..
Alternatively turn the water off at the stopcock, freezing the pipes in a house is pointless, as it'll be copper, and as the ice plug in the pipe expands it'll split the copper. (Same as it bursts external pipes)
Ben.
If minor weep on isolating valve, then leave it for a few days to see if it 'takes up'. Failing that turn off water and simple job to replace, although can be fiddly beneath a WC cistern.
Benn - you can freeze copper pipes, in all my years only caused one burst with my freezer kit.