Ready to hire?

Post your job in minutes, browse real reviews and choose who to speak to.Post a job

Need some tips or advice?

Plumbing

Turning off flow to toilet cistern

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.35 PM

I need to change the diaphragm washer on a toilet float valve, but the inlet pipe does not have a tap to cut off the water. If I turn off the main, and empty the roof tank by running taps, are there going to be problems with sediment stirred up in the roof tank when I restore the supply? Is there another way to do this?

Are you a tradesperson and able to answer this question?

1 Answer

Anonymous user

Hi,if the cistern is tank fed you can plug the tank feed with rubber cones (can be purchased in most plumbers merchants ) saving you a drain down and stirring up any debris from bottom of tank in loft.If it is mains fed all you do is turn of mains stopcock and that isolates water.

Answered25 November 2015