Stop tap headgear blanking

[Rob.S]

I have an old mains stop tap fed from a very short length of plastic pipe coming out of the ground. The tap leaks around the spindle when open, but is no longer needed as it will be inaccessible in the new kitchen I am about to fit. I have already installed a new stop tap in a more accessible place.

I realise I can probably fix the leaking headgear with some PTFE but is there such a thing as a blanking piece to replace just the headgear so it becomes a coupling? I am wary of removing the tap all together as I don't want to disturb the link from the plastic to copper unless I really need to.

 

[John506]

I would just pack it up with ptfe to be honest, if you did find a blank plug you would have to turn your water off from outside or you would get rather wet, and may aswell just take the stop tap out and replace with a straight piece of pipe?

PTFE method more favourable though.

 

[John506]

Edit: wouldn't worry about disturning the link, just use some hep20 push fit, can't go wrong

 

[Rob.S]

I would just pack it up with ptfe to be honest, if you did find a blank plug you would have to turn your water off from outside or you would get rather wet, and may aswell just take the stop tap out and replace with a straight piece of pipe?

PTFE method more favourable though.

Thanks for the reply. I ended up replacing the tap with a piece of pipe. I was wary of doing this initially because the incoming black plastic pipe looked like it might be difficult to rejoin. Took a few goes and some PTFE but so far so good