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Can't shut off washing machine tap to replace
Anonymous user 28 February 2024 - 3.27 PM
Hiya! The blue tap to my washing machine is leaking, I've tried everything from ptfe tape to playing with the screw in the tap which slowed the leak down. Now I just want to replace the tap with a new one but when I turn off the stopcock outside my flat in the cupboard on the landing (I live in a block of flats ten years old) the cold sink taps stop running but the washing machine tap has still got water coming out! Do I need to keep letting water out till it stops or is there another stopcock outside outside?
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Jason Walters Roofing and Home Improvements
Turn off the stopcock to the hot water tank.
Answered13 April 2017
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Anonymous user
If your internal stop tap stops water coming out of all of your cold taps then just put a bowl under the washing machine valve while you replace it. If the water is warm/hot turn on the hot taps and wait for tank to drain. It could be an old valve for the hot side of washing machine. All washing machine valves come with the blue handle fitted and the red loose in the packaging and some people don't swap them over.
Answered17 April 2017
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