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How to Replace a Old Toilet Shut Off Valve...RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB!!

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Before beginning any plumbing work, locate and turn off the main water supply to the house. This is typically done using a main shut-off valve, which in this case, is located in the laundry room in the basement. Turn the valve clockwise until the water flow is completely stopped. Once the main water is off, open the lowest faucet in the house (e.g., a basement sink or laundry tub) to drain any remaining water from the system. This relieves pressure and minimizes water spillage during the valve replacement. After the main water lines are drained, go to the toilet being worked on, disconnect its flexible supply line from the toilet fill valve, and then open the old toilet shut-off valve to further drain the line specific to the toilet. This ensures no water is left in the immediate line where the valve is being replaced.

Goal: Ensure no water is in the supply line to the toilet

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okay so the first thing we're gonna do is you're gonna come and you're going to shut the water off and so their particular shutoff valve is actually right here in the wall in their laundry room in the basement so we'll just turn that to the right you want to make sure it shuts all the way off and we're good to go so then you want to come to this particular faucet is in the basement and we're just going to go ahead and we're going to open that and we're going to drain the water out once it stops we're going to open something up upstairs it's going to drain down into this faucet it's going to be good to go okay so what we're going to do here is you can see if this is not disconnected from your fill valve then you want to go ahead disconnect this right here pull that off and then open this valve we already have a faucet downstairs open all the water is going to drain out of this line and we're going to have no water in here we go to pull this apart this angle stop supply line combo right

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