Toilet Shutoff Valve



The good thing about a toilet shut off valve is that it lets you shut off the water to the individual tap without having to disrupt the entire water supply in your home. Now this may not seem to be something great if you already have shut off valves installed in your home for individual taps in your bathrooms or kitchen or onto the main supply lines for the cold and hot water running through the bathrooms and kitchen. This is quite likely if you live in a house that was built in the past few years. Most new homes come with shut off valves already installed in the toilets as well as in the kitchen area. However if your house does not have shutoff valves installed in the pipes running through the kitchen and bathrooms or you happen to live in an older house then you should definitely consider installing shut off valves.



If you are thinking why you would need to install shut off valves in the first place then here is something that will make you reconsider. Just imagine a scenario in which you needed to stop the water supply to the entire house just so you could change the washer in your kitchen sink. It does not make any sense! Not when you could have just as easily changed the washer by shutting off the valve in the kitchen area alone! This is exactly the reason why you need to install quality shut off valves.

It is quite easy to install shut off valves. Most of the valves make use of pressure couplings. Thus you won't even need to think about the soldering of the pipes. In fact the installation process for shut off valve is quite straightforward. You can take care of the installation of the valves with the regular plumbing tools. The things that you would need for installation of the shut off valves include the valves themselves along with, some compound for plumbing joints, new pipes for supply lines, Teflon tape and pipe cutters. Once you have these supplies in hand you can begin the installation process.

Necessary Checks Before the Installation

There are few things that you need to check before installing the shut off valves. The first and the most important thing that you require to do is look for the supply lines connecting to the sinks and the cisterns. This is because while some lines may be connected via the floor of the kitchen or the bathrooms and connect it to the faucet, others may simply emerge from the walls situated behind the cisterns or the sinks and bend at and angle of ninety degrees to connect with the system. In case of the first you would need to consider shutting it off. In case of the second one, you can either opt to connect a 'straight shut off' or go for angle stops.

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