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mudcow007
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PostPosted: 13:34 - 20 Feb 2017    Post subject: External tap stopped working - Fixed Reply with quote
Went to wash my bike last night (for its annual wash).

Turned the tap on for the hose an nowt happened....?

The tap is one of them that cuts into one of the pipes in the kitchen. water is still working through the main tap in the kitchen.

I'm a bit stumped on how i cant be working, its not the most technical thing in the world.

checked the internal tap, this was swtich on

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PostPosted: 13:53 - 20 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Strange...
My first step would be loosening the external tap to see if there was pressure behind it, ie. has the tap somehow got itself blocked / broken. If so, new tap time. If not, continued head scratching and tracing back down the pipe (could be the non-return valve?).
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Pete.
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PostPosted: 13:53 - 20 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Probably the tap has failed. Might be broken from freezing up in the cold weather.

Unscrew it see if water comes gushing out Very Happy
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PostPosted: 14:24 - 20 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
I will commence the unscrewing tonight.

It was weird, i disconnected the hose connector off it an got a bit of a dribble that was it.

I was half expecting the comedy moment as i look into the tap for water to gush at my eye balls but nothing Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 20:43 - 20 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Make sure you know where the stopcock is...
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PostPosted: 12:34 - 21 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pete. wrote:
Make sure you know where the stopcock is...

Make sure the stopcock turns as well.
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PostPosted: 12:36 - 21 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
the outside tap the OP mentions typically has a tap of its own for local isolation .
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PostPosted: 13:46 - 21 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
bugeye_bob wrote:
the outside tap the OP mentions typically has a tap of its own for local isolation .


A stopcock you mean?
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PostPosted: 14:45 - 21 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pete. wrote:
bugeye_bob wrote:
the outside tap the OP mentions typically has a tap of its own for local isolation .


A stopcock you mean?

Often there's a valve you can turn with a flat bladed screwdriver.
If it's a simple brass tap just swap the whole unit they're only about £8, I've seen them under £5.
It's hardly wrth messing about with washers as they tend to corrode internally and drip for ever more if opened.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/outside-tap-with-double-check-valve-15mm-x-mm/37241
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mudcow007
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PostPosted: 15:49 - 21 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers all, didnt have a chance to look at the mofo last night

Hopefully will be able to attack it tonight. i have a feeling when i originally fitted it (2 years ago) there was a diaphram looking thing inside the bit that holds the tap to the wall?

would that be the check valve?

how do you check a check valve?

ta
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mudcow007
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PostPosted: 10:13 - 28 Feb 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fixed

Unscrewed the tap from the wall plate, inside the tap body was a little plastic tube with an a plunger, o-ring an spring.

removed the tube, an straightened the little plunger thing an refitted now all is well in my world

thanks

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