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We have a outside tap that's dripping. We have bought another to replace it. The stopcock does not cut off the outside tap only internal taps
 
Do you have a stop tap out in the street somewhere, perhaps under a cover i.e. upstream of the house internal stop tap

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Roy (amateur)
 

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