On 12/01/2017 09:29, Nightjar wrote:
On 11-Jan-17 7:56 PM, Max Demian wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:19:09 +0000, Nightjar wrote:

Do you not have a stopcock in the flat? If you do, it would be
installed
just before that.

s/cock/tap/

Cocks are banned as they can burst the supply pipes (apart from ball
cocks of course).


If you want to be pedantic

Oh! I do!

the regulations require the fitting of a
stopvalve.

So what about those taps with long levers used in hospitals &c.? They
work like normal taps (I think), but go from fully on to fully off in a
trice. How do supply pipes cope with them?

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Max Demian