where's the stopcock??

marcia_

 I live in a new build and had to have my own installed because gleeson failed to put one in! 

 Before that had to turn it off from the water meter in the garden 

davemorton

Op, have you asked a neighbour where theirs is? 

daivid

Doesn't help you I realise but the stopcock for my parents house (1940s built) is outside about 10m from the house and a good few m in from their boundary, 30cm or so down in a box section concrete pipe. It was covered with a piece of slate (and lots of leaves) when they moved in. Luckily the previous owner could tell them exactly where, my Dad sorted this by putting a large piece of quartz on top to make it easier to find 🤔. It is a regular brass stopcock in 15mm copper pipe, not a water co one so far as I know and there is no stopcock inside the house.

Bendy_House

Hi Brie.

How old is your house? Is it detached? Are there similar properties on the same road? If so, ask your neighbs as suggested before.

Where is your kitchen in relation to the outside mains? If on the same side, then that would make it even more likely the SC is there somewhere. Are they newish units? Have you thoroughly checked EVERY base unit for secret access hatches, espec the sink one? Can you pull off the plinths and check where the supply pipes to the sink head off to?

Do you have a CWS in the loft? If so, follow the 15mm feed pipe (to the ball valve) and see where it disappears to - ie, where it comes UP from to the loft, and then focus your search downstairs in that area.

This is exciting!

(I'm bored...)

Bigphil1474

We live in a mid terrace house (1910's) and there is no internal stop !!!!!! - we use the one on the pavement outside our house, always have done. Each house has their own.

Ben1989

Ours is behind our washing machine which is a right squeeze. Given the weight of the washing machine and the awkwardness your old plumber would have just preferred to turn it off outside. Follow your pipework. Ensure you see every cm of it. You'll find it unless you're one of the rare ones that down have one internally.

Brie

Bendy_House said:

Hi Brie.

How old is your house? Is it detached? Are there similar properties on the same road? If so, ask your neighbs as suggested before.

Where is your kitchen in relation to the outside mains? If on the same side, then that would make it even more likely the SC is there somewhere. Are they newish units? Have you thoroughly checked EVERY base unit for secret access hatches, espec the sink one? Can you pull off the plinths and check where the supply pipes to the sink head off to?

Do you have a CWS in the loft? If so, follow the 15mm feed pipe (to the ball valve) and see where it disappears to - ie, where it comes UP from to the loft, and then focus your search downstairs in that area.

This is exciting!

(I'm bored...)

I think the house was built in the 1940s.  There are a number of vaguely similar ones on our road but almost all of them (including ours) have been significantly altered.  But I will ask the neighbour who is in the building trade as it's vaguely possible that he might have talked to the previous owners about this.

I believe our house didn't originally have a front door but one on the side of the house as there's a stone arch to the side door which must be part of the original build.  There's now also a front door but that comes through a added on bit that is vaguely like a conservatory.  

The kitchen is at the back of the house and the washing machine lives in an outdoor cupboard (original pantry?) that is between the kitchen and bathroom and under the upstairs loo.  There's only an upstairs as the roof was raised to massively extend what would have been a small bungalow originally.  So lots of plumbing being moved about and lots of reno so I would have thought a stopcock would have been installed at some point.  Def no CWS as essentially no loft.  (just some tiddyly under the eaves cupboards)

If the neighbour has no info I'll try tracing the pipework from kitchen towards the front including the utility cupboard on the far side of the bathroom as that will be the logical line for it.  

@Bendy_House
You need to get out more!!!

Bendy_House

Brie said:

Bendy_House said:

Hi Brie.

How old is your house? Is it detached? Are there similar properties on the same road? If so, ask your neighbs as suggested before.

Where is your kitchen in relation to the outside mains? If on the same side, then that would make it even more likely the SC is there somewhere. Are they newish units? Have you thoroughly checked EVERY base unit for secret access hatches, espec the sink one? Can you pull off the plinths and check where the supply pipes to the sink head off to?

Do you have a CWS in the loft? If so, follow the 15mm feed pipe (to the ball valve) and see where it disappears to - ie, where it comes UP from to the loft, and then focus your search downstairs in that area.

This is exciting!

(I'm bored...)

I think the house was built in the 1940s.  There are a number of vaguely similar ones on our road but almost all of them (including ours) have been significantly altered.  But I will ask the neighbour who is in the building trade as it's vaguely possible that he might have talked to the previous owners about this.

I believe our house didn't originally have a front door but one on the side of the house as there's a stone arch to the side door which must be part of the original build.  There's now also a front door but that comes through a added on bit that is vaguely like a conservatory.  

The kitchen is at the back of the house and the washing machine lives in an outdoor cupboard (original pantry?) that is between the kitchen and bathroom and under the upstairs loo.  There's only an upstairs as the roof was raised to massively extend what would have been a small bungalow originally.  So lots of plumbing being moved about and lots of reno so I would have thought a stopcock would have been installed at some point.  Def no CWS as essentially no loft.  (just some tiddyly under the eaves cupboards)

If the neighbour has no info I'll try tracing the pipework from kitchen towards the front including the utility cupboard on the far side of the bathroom as that will be the logical line for it.  

@Bendy_House
You need to get out more!!!

:-)

You have a combi boiler, or an 'unvented' hot cylinder, then? As you say, with all that new plumbing work, it would be astonishing if a SC hadn't been fitted somewhere.

Happy hunting.

FreeBear

Brie said: The kitchen is at the back of the house and the washing machine lives in an outdoor cupboard (original pantry?)

More likely a coal store or outside privy for the outdoor cupboard.

TELLIT01

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