On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:46:33 +0100, in uk.d-i-y "Johnny"
strung together this:

Can I run the central heating with the water turned off ?

Yes, if you follow the rest of the replies below.

Is it safe to leave everything off for the next few days ? my concern here
being the pilot light in the central heating boiler - even though the
central heating is switched off.

You can switch it on.

Being without water for a few days isn't
an issue as I'm a scruff and would rather wait til after the Easter weekend
as it'll save an absolute fortune Is it safe though?

Obviously I have no drinking/washing water as if I turn the water on via the
stopcock then the hot water tank will fill up (and leak!)

If you turn the valve off in the airing cupboard labelled 'hot water
isolating valve' you can then switch the main cold water stop tap back
on and you'll have heating and cold water running. That tap in the
airing cupboard will just isolate the hot water.

- isn't there
supposed to be a stopcock in the attic for precisely this reason?

Yes.

I
couldn't find it. The only other stopcock I could find is in the airing
cupboard and is labelled "hot water isolating valve" - could this be the
stopcock for the cold water feed to the ho****er tank? it's on a pipe
coming from the attic to the bottom of the ho****er tank so it seems likely,
but as it's labelled 'hot water' I'd like this confirmed

Consider it confirmed.

(also, this
stopcock is mentioned seperately from the one that should exist in the attic
in the booklet I got when I bought the house)...

Should and do are two entirely different words to housebuilders!
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SJW
A.C.S. Ltd.