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Stopcock - stops hot only ?

lizalexander · 2016-01-07 08:57:42

I've just done a stopcock check (first one) to check where the water turns off. I turned on all the taps upstairs and downstairs - and then turned off the stopcock (stopcock under kitchen sink) - the stopcock turned off all the hot water (up & down) but left the cold water (up & down) on. My house (terraced) has a combi…

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TheCyclingProgrammer Posts: 3,702 Forumite

9 January 2016 at 7:33PM

molerat wrote: »

Downstairs cold and combi supplying hot will be fed from the mains. Upstairs cold will be fed from the old tank in the loft just as it always was.

Is that normal? When our old conventional boiler was replaced with a combi, everything was converted to mains. The old hot water cylinder and cold water tank in the loft were removed entirely (I think cold water tanks are sometimes left alone if there is a risk of asbestos but ours was plastic).

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