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Shut Off Water Supply & Troubleshoot Valve Issues

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Two-Handle Kitchen Sink Faucet Leak Repair

What happens here

Locate the hot water angle stop valve under the sink. Attempt to shut off the water by turning the valve. If the valve is stiff or corroded (as observed in the video), carefully use channel locks to turn it. If the faucet continues to drip after closing the angle stop, further action is needed. This might involve tightening a loose packing nut on the angle stop with an adjustable wrench, or, if the leak persists, shutting off the main water heater supply. To fully drain remaining water from the hot water lines, open a downstairs faucet to relieve pressure.

Goal: Completely stop the hot water flow to the kitchen faucet.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench — Tightening the packing nut on the angle stop valve
  • Channel Locks Knipex — Turning stubborn or damaged angle stop valves

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to pop this apart. All right, so this is another thing we're going to have to deal with here at some point is you see this valve, like look at where that is right on this drain line. You couldn't put one of these knobs on here if you wanted to. That's why it's all marred up right there is people been taking channel locks to it and tightening it down and then also packing nut. There's a little bit loose. This is a project for another day for them. Give that packing just a little bit of a snug and then we'll take our little 426 channel locks and we're just going to have to get right here and turn this off. Lover man, I hate doing this to a valve. Okay, so I shut that valve off and this is still leaking a bit. So I had to go down and actually shut the water here off. Okay, let's just see if we can get another crank or two on this valve right here. Maybe I didn't shut it off good enough. Maybe we can open something downstairs and get this to stop. So we opened up the faucet downstairs to get that little drip to stop up here and now we're actually going to be able to change this out. No problem. So I didn't have the proper size

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