Installing Kitchen Water Shut Off Valve

Some water might remain in the system so keep a small bucket handy.

Installing kitchen water shut off valve.

One for the hot water supply and the other for the cold. Shut off the circuit breakers to an electric water heater. When cutting the supply line cut slowly and gently so. Place valve in accessible location.

Leah from see jane drill demonstrates how to remove an old water shut off valve for a toilet and install a new one compression type. Typically there are two shut off valves installed underneath the kitchen sink. Under sink shutoff valves also called fixture shutoffs or stop valves allow you to turn off the water to the sink or other fixture without having to use the home s main shutoff. Place a bucket under the old valve.

How to install a water shut off valve. These inexpensive little valves rarely get used and when they do sometimes they leak. Open the faucet to drain the line. Usually this is a laundry tub outdoor spigot or kitchen faucet.

Then drain your home at the lowest point. Use either a self tap saddle valve or a tee stop valve. Shut off the water at the main shutoff valve. Deburr the pipe with a deburring tool.

Then cut copper pipe with an autocut tool. If your sink does not have a shut off valve you will have to tap the line through the sink s piping and install a valve for the refrigerator water line. Verify leak free installation and operation. Learn how easy it is.

Shut off water supply. To replace a shut off valve in the kitchen sink you need to locate the valves that turn the water supply on or off. If you have a gas water heater turn the knob to the pilot position. Describe and showing how really easy it is to change out a faulty shut off valve for sink toilet or anywhere you have a leak in one.

Then disconnect the supply tube from the shutoff valve. Tapping a sink without a valve. Cut the supply line with a pipe cutter leaving enough room between the escutcheon plate and the cut to allow installation of the valve fitting. Usually the water main will be in a basement or garage.

The shut off valves are easy to spot. Demolition and wall floor ceiling surface restoration is extra if needed. Then open a faucet on the lowest level of your house and another faucet on an upper level to drain the pipes. Your first step is to shut off the water to the entire house at the meter.

Cut fit and securely attach shut off valve to existing water supply line. If this happens to you you can simply replace the valve with a new valve that matches the old one. Drain the system by opening the sink and tub faucets on the lowest floor. First step turn off the water to your house.

Plan where you ll place the shut off valve. Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection. Turn off the next valve up the line which may be the main water supply valve.