Hi,

Just took a look through the archives, and although there's lots of
advice here on how to turn off the outside stopcock, none of it seems
to apply to mine.

The one I'm trying to turn off at the moment looks more like a
childproof container than a traditional tap or square section stopcock.
The main part is a strong white plastic shaped disk, maybe 10cm
across, with a black handle on the top which can fold down. On the top
of the white plastic is a very slim hexagonal metal bolt head, maybe
30mm across, and only a couple of mm high. Revealed by a cutout in the
side of the white plastic is a black plastic underbody, with lettering
"ON". It looks like the white plastic should turn an eighth or
sixteenth of a turn and reveal the word OFF.

Only one problem, it is adultproof. I can't turn it in any direction,
can't lift it, can't get the folding handle to contribute anything
useful, can't find any tools designed to help, and altough it's a good
conversation started for meeting neighbours, no-one passing along the
street seems to be able help either.

I would use the main internal stoptap rather than the outside one, but
the internal stoptap is the component I want to work on.

Any advice would be much appreciated at this point...

Regards,

wetroomproject