Turning off water at meter?

[voipio]

Is it not just the gland on the stopcock that's leaking? Or compresion fitting needs nipping up?

 

[hotponyshoes]

Is it not just the gland on the stopcock that's leaking?

I noticed it dripping from the tap side the other day, not badly enough for me to do anything about it mind..
Now its 'spraying'
I'll be home in 15mins so I'll have a look..

 

[northwest]

He will be back up for air shortly!

 

[voipio]

If it is the gland, turning the leaking stopcock off, and opening a cold tap, should release most of the pressure. Some gland stuffing should sort that out.

 

[hotponyshoes]

The lady isn't looking at SWA cable?

She's not that bad..
To be fair, she did know enough to scrape the paint off of the pipe before measuring it.
And use the coolant proof mitutyo's rather than the regular ones..

 

[Barking Mat]

If it's before the meter, can't you phone up the water board ?

Up to the meter, it's there responsibility ?

No ?

 

[Agroshield]

Some gland stuffing should sort that out.

Where do you buy gland stuffing at all? Where do you buy gland stuffing at 8pm of an evening?

A suggestion of a likely-available short-term alternative would be helpful here.

 

[hotponyshoes]

If it's before the meter, can't you phone up the water board ?

Up to the meter, it's there responsibility ?

No ?

It's in the bathroom.

The next issue is the meter seems to be located somewhere under where I have been parking my 3 ton truck for the last 10 years..

 

[hotponyshoes]

God knows how they have been working my water bill out.
Doesn't look like anyone has been in this hole for years..
Cover was at 45deg, the thing I thought was a handy lid handle was actually the o-ring that should have been keeping the dirt out.
Whole thing was full of dirt, gravel and worms.
I've excavated most of it with my bare hand and can feel something that might well be a 19mm hex..

 

[roblane65]

Well if you can't turn the water main off your going to be looking at a freezer kit if youv'e got enough pipe exposed below the stop cock , but that's not going to help right now . Screw the stop cock shut and tighten the gland nut

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

A suggestion of a likely-available short-term alternative would be helpful here.

6 pack of plumbers tape

Call the water company...thats what I had to do once, if it's leaking badly (and their shutoff isn't functional) then they'll do it as an emergency job. At the very least they have to come out and test the shutoff of the main.

 

[Farside]

It's black plastic pipe coming into the house, she's telling me it's measuring 21.96mm
I don't ever recall seeing black in 22mm?
Might it be?

Thick wall black alkathene, usually 1/2" bore. Tons of it around here on the farms.
Of course, the adjoining domestic premises use it too, 'cos why not if it's there already.
Bugger standards.

 

[Farside]

Some gland stuffing should sort that out.

That comes later after a job well done.

 

[hotponyshoes]

Despite being submerged in crud for years the valve on the meter works!!

 

[roblane65]

Happy Days .........

 

[voipio]

Where do you buy gland stuffing at all? Where do you buy gland stuffing at 8pm of an evening?

A suggestion of a likely-available short-term alternative would be helpful here.

Pipe jointing compound and horsehair. Most of us on here probably have the first. Parcel string or long fibre cotton wool is an alterative. Undo the gland nut and clean out the old stuffing, work the jointing compound into the horse hair/string/cotton wool and then wrap it several turns around the tap spindle and push into the gland, then tighten the gland nut onto the stuffing. If desperate, vaseline and string would probably work.

 

[Welderpaul]

Where do you buy gland stuffing at all? Where do you buy gland stuffing at 8pm of an evening?

A suggestion of a likely-available short-term alternative would be helpful here.

Just use plenty of PTFE tape

 

[Barking Mat]

Pipe jointing compound and horsehair. Most of us on here probably have the first. Parcel string or long fibre cotton wool is an alterative. Undo the gland nut and clean out the old stuffing, work the jointing compound into the horse hair/string/cotton wool and then wrap it several turns around the tap spindle and push into the gland, then tighten the gland nut onto the stuffing. If desperate, vaseline and string would probably work.

Would dog hair work, I've loads...

 

[123hotchef]

o ring in the stop cock might need a new one

 

[addjunkie]

Thick wall black alkathene, usually 1/2" bore. Tons of it around here on the farms.
Of course, the adjoining domestic premises use it too, 'cos why not if it's there already.
Bugger standards.

Id agree some of our field stuff is old black imperial pipe.