Hi all, hope you can help. (i'm sure someone out there can)
I've got a 1950's house with concrete floor d/stairs.(joy!!!) My rising main (15mm I think which strikes me as a touch small, but who am I to argue?) comes out of the floor and up a riser in the kitchen. There is a brass stopcock, then a water meter and then another brass stopcock before the pipe disappears upstais and underneath the floorboards and distributes to the whole street judging by the water bills (just kidding).
anyway, before I become too boring, both these stopcocks are leaking from between the top nut (gland nut???) and the tap shaft and ruining my nice new kitchen.
can anyone offer advice on:-
should I use ptfe tape as packing to re-seal?
should I replace the stopcocks completely?
if I do replace them, would it be acceptable to replace them with 15mm full bore ball valves with the lever attachments as these would seem to offer a quicker means of turning the water on and off. (access to them is via a hole in the back of a new kitchen unit and is limited thus making it awkward to turn the taps)
cheers all
I've got a 1950's house with concrete floor d/stairs.(joy!!!) My rising main (15mm I think which strikes me as a touch small, but who am I to argue?) comes out of the floor and up a riser in the kitchen. There is a brass stopcock, then a water meter and then another brass stopcock before the pipe disappears upstais and underneath the floorboards and distributes to the whole street judging by the water bills (just kidding).
anyway, before I become too boring, both these stopcocks are leaking from between the top nut (gland nut???) and the tap shaft and ruining my nice new kitchen.
can anyone offer advice on:-
should I use ptfe tape as packing to re-seal?
should I replace the stopcocks completely?
if I do replace them, would it be acceptable to replace them with 15mm full bore ball valves with the lever attachments as these would seem to offer a quicker means of turning the water on and off. (access to them is via a hole in the back of a new kitchen unit and is limited thus making it awkward to turn the taps)
cheers all
