Leaky Stopcock in downstairs toilet

princessbutterpea

We have a leaky tap like stopcock in our downstairs loo but cant seem to stop it and cannot freeze it as it is an iron pipe not copper or the other way round i forget but anyways does anyone know how to fix it??? Is there like some sort of putty or something that will hold it and stop it???


ta v muchly in advance

caveat_emptor

Is the leak coming out of the tap spindle or out of the joint with the pipe?
If out of the spindle try tightening the packing nut. The packing acts as a seal around the spindle.
If out of the joint with the pipe try tightening the compression nut, assuming it's the compression type.

princessbutterpea

the spindle - thanks willl get my oh to look when he gets in

princessbutterpea

there is no packing nut as its really old
it has been painted lots of times too

princessbutterpea

or the paacking nut is really worn and now circular instead of a hexagon as must of leaked before.

amarg

Not sure if this will help or not in your case- repacking a stop !!!! gland

andyhop

Steel tube can be frozen but requires either a Co2 or electric freezing kit

Cant the supply be isolated from the toby?

If the gland is damaged then it will need replaced

caveat_emptor

Replace the stopcock. You can't fix this with putty or something.

skinback69

hi there should be a stopcock out side to turn off the whole water to ur property if you cant pack the gland out with ptfe get a new stop tap and split the body of it this is the nut just a bit below the leaking gland on ur stoptap then split the other one this means you will not have to change any of the pipework above or below the tap so then you just screw the new head in you can buy stop taps at bnq or local plumbing merchents the only thing with just changing the head of it is if it is really old like you say it might be a metric size(MOH) not imperial you will know this if it dosent screw in if this happens you will have to get ur stop tap from bss which is a sister company to pts plumbing merchents sorry about the lingo hope this helps