Taken carpet up and found some taps

[essex_lee]

Under the boards I was planning on tiling over I have found 2 taps.

1 goes to the radiator in the hall, red tap. What is the point of this tap?

And the other is the main stop **** which is seized up, BUT please read on....

From outside the property I have the main water coming in which goes to this seized up tap, after that there is a T, one side goes to a tap in the garage for a hose etc, and the other side goes to another stop **** in the kitchen in a cupboard. And this is what I use to shut the water off in the house.


What should I do ?

Thanks

 

[Alan.P]

Re the plumbing side, not sure. As for the tiling side, what boards are you planning on tiling over, what tiles and what prep work are you planning on ?

 

[essex_lee]

10mm ply over tongue and groove boards. Porcelain tiles

Just found another stop **** in the street that shuts everything off, so I'm not bothered about the one under the boards now..


Any clues with the one that goes to he rad?

Ta

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Sounds like a drain off but they are not usually red?

 

[essex_lee]

It's inline with the pipe, with a red round handle

 

[Bathfix Bob]

It a gate valve, someone has added it to allow the rad to be isolated or during draindown they've added gate to install radiator at a later date.

If you are going to tile over it make sure its not leaking and is fully open.

 

[northstar]

i would get rid of valve just incase it leaks later on, any pics ?

 

[Bathfix Bob]

In an ideal world definatly take it out, but its amazing how many central heating pumps are under the bathroom floor and tiled over.

If tilers tile over those then a gate valve is nothing.

 

[Thespanishtiler]

a gate valve is sometimes added to a early take off from the ch flow and throttled down to prevent a flow loop back to the pump/boiler.

for this reason don't mess with it if its not leaking.

 

[White Room]

Fully open the gate valve then do a quarter turn clockwise, if at a later date it needs to be turned off for some reason it allows movement to loosen by turning both ways...

 

[kilty55]

as above sounds like a gate valve

 

[Time's Ran Out]

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