Do you know where your home’s water shut-off valve is, and how to turn it off? Learn what to do before you’re faced with a ...

Locate the metal shut-off valve along the wall behind the toilet, usually near the base of the tank. Manually twist the valve clockwise until tight to turn off the water supply to the toilet.

If that valve needs replacement, contact your water utility to shut off the main valve at the curb. The post Home Repair: How to Replace the Main Shut Off Valve appeared first on Family Handyman.

John Kennedy Once your toilet flushes, the fill valve, well, starts filling it back up. “They didn’t come up with complicated names when they named the parts of a toilet,” Sebestyen says.

1. Turn the water off at the main valve for the home. 2. Open a few faucets to drain water out of the lines. 3. Cut the water line just before the shut-off valve. 4. Ream and de-bur the cut pipe end.

On the good side, putting in a new one is a simple job, thanks to the modern miracles of compression fittings and standardized measurements. Phase one: Remove old toilet. Shut off the intake valve ...

To determine if the pipe between these two points is leaking, shut off the main water supply valve at the house, and check to see if the meter continues to show water is being used.

Due to age and corrosion, the main gas shut-off valve in up to 10% of California homes is frozen so tight that the average homeowner cannot move it to the closed position, according to a Public ...

Water service will be temporarily shut off to Bayonne residents in the area of W 33 rd Street and Avenue A at around 3:30 p.m. today for emergency repairs to a damaged water valve in that area.