Comments on: probably silly question about fitting new Kitchen sink and water being disconnected.

By: Emasculated Britain

Emasculated Britain — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The main stop top (usually located near the front or back door, and supplying the whole house) will be turned off temporarily. If it is just a matter of replacing like for like, in the same place, it won’t be off for long.

In the meantime, you won’t be able to use any water or operate central heating. Draw any water you think you may need before work commences.

By: O

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

ask them to put stop ends on the sink pipes so you can use bathroom and fill kettle and baby food etc, what about cooker.

By: syco noodles

syco noodles — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i hope you have not got builders from hell fitting your new kitchen or you wont have any water or electric for weeks,,

By: ron

ron — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It all depends on the plumbing design of your house, there’s a stop cock (Sorry about the asterisks, it’s what they call a male hen) outside the house in the pavement which will turn off the water to the whole house.

Then there’s another one usually in the kitchen under the draining board which also turns the water off to the whole house which is the one they will probably use.

However, knowing the disruption that this can cause, the time it’s turned off is cut to a minimum, especially knowing that you can’t make them a cup of tea, probably no more than a few hours if their any good.

I suggest you fill your bath with cold water for use in your toilet, there’s enough water in the tanks to look after your central heating etc.

By: john h

john h — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yes there is, isolate the cold water where it comes in to the house and the pipe that feed the cold water to the sink unit then can be cut and you can fit a ball-o-fix valve which will isolate the water to cold tap on the sink unit.

Isolate the hot water take off from your hot water cylinder then turn on the hot tap unit any water comes out, you can then do the same procedure as the cold feed to the sink unit. Then you can have water in the rest of the house obviously turning on the valve by the hot water cylinder.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

go to MacDonald’s