Help to find my stop tap please!

rileydog

I need to change a washer in my kitchen sink mixer tap, never done it before but looked online and saw that it's a two minute job... only I can't find the stoptap to turn the water off :mad: It's not under the sink (that I can see - pic attached) and I've just spent half an hour pulling the washing machine out and ripping the lino in the process but it's not there either!

I've googled what the stoptap looks like and it doesn't appear to be under the sink - any ideas?

keystone

Trace the lead pipe backwards towards the supply.

Cheers

asparagus1968

hi, mine is outside in the little cupboard the meter is in ( new build)
hope you find it!!

Ms_Chocaholic

Mine is further round the kitchen; I need to take out a couple of drawers to access it. Hope you find it soon.

Jaynne

Ours was at the back of a corner cupboard where thankfully there was a hole cut in the carcass to allow access.

The pipework goes left maybe look in any corners that way though I've once lived in a place where the stopcock was in a hatch in the ceiling above the front door (on the ground floor of a place with no basement).

Southend1

From the photo it appears you have isolating taps installed in the pipes to the tap. So you can switch off the water to the mixer tap using those. Although you might still want to find the stopcock anyway in case you ever need it. It could be out in the street under a cover that looks like a water meter cover?

rileydog

Thanks all.

I traced the pipes left (hence pulling the washing machine out earlier) and no sign.

I just looked in the water meter which is attached to the front of my house just in front of the sink and found a black thing which looks as if it might turn - pic attached - could that be the stop tap? The white thing behind the u-bend in the photo above seems to correspond ie there are two black things on the water meter and under the sink there are also two black things so think that is the back of the water meter?

Southend1 wrote: »

From the photo it appears you have isolating taps installed in the pipes to the tap. So you can switch off the water to the mixer tap using those. Although you might still want to find the stopcock anyway in case you ever need it. It could be out in the street under a cover that looks like a water meter cover?

Sorry to be dense but could you explain how to do that please?

Pic of black thing in water meter (circled)...

southcoastrgi

Southend1 wrote: »

From the photo it appears you have isolating taps installed in the pipes to the tap. So you can switch off the water to the mixer tap using those. Although you might still want to find the stopcock anyway in case you ever need it. It could be out in the street under a cover that looks like a water meter cover?

unfortunatly you are incorrect the two parts at the bottom are drain off points & the two compression fittings you can see going upto the taps are just straight connectors, so no way of turning the water off in that pic.

southcoastrgi

op in your pic the bit you have circled is indeed your external stop tap, it is a 1/4 turn, you should have a plastic key that fits in there it's normally left in with it, you just turn it 1/4 turn or slightly more clockwise & that will turn off the water.

Southend1

southcoastrgi wrote: »

unfortunatly you are incorrect the two parts at the bottom are drain off points & the two compression fittings you can see going upto the taps are just straight connectors, so no way of turning the water off in that pic.

Sorry yes I was looking on my phone and the compression fittings looked like those isolators. But on looking again you are correct!

southcoastrgi

Southend1 wrote: »

Sorry yes I was looking on my phone and the compression fittings looked like those isolators. But on looking again you are correct!

no probs i have the same issue with my phone