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bethannbitt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:49 am You, one who is apparently separated from me by a common language, call the valve that shuts the spigot off a „stopcock“.

I well remember many years ago being hauled out of bed at 6am on Christmas Day by the phone ringing - our aunt at the other end of the village panicing as water was flooding the house. She had used the toilet in the night & the small nippel on the ball valve had broken off thus water streamed into the cistern & then overflowed. We had good water pressure & between every sentence on the phone she had to run to flush the toilet.

My brother & I grabbed a few tools & drove the mile or so (frosty roads of course) & within seconds my brother had found the stopcock & turned the water off. Thus we were able to pacify panicing aunt plus corgi.

We drove home & it was to late to go back to sleep so breakfast - somehow the gas cylinder was empty.

By 11am we had borrowed a spare gas cylinderfrom a neighbour obtained (from another neighbour) & fitted a ball valve to aunt's Klo...