Fitting a dishwasher in an old house

nino1

I am putting a new dishwasher into an old house. This is the connection to the mains supply. Does anyone know if this is missing one of those red wheels to turn the water off before I change the connection?

Would I be able to manually turn it with a vice grips?

Markcheese

You could just change it ! An appliance valve is only a couple of euros , or gearbox a really small spanner and put that on the end rather than striping the head with a vice grips

nino1

I have identified mains water supply.

If I turn that off will I be able to just do the connection directly to that existing connection without having to worry about turning it off at that point?

Hobby farmer

Yes you could turn off the water at the meter but make sure to open up your kitchen cold tap before you disconnect that or you'll get wet (some water will still come out so have a towel) or you can grab the valve in the Pic with a vice grips. No need to crush it, just close the grips enough to barely pinch it.

Wearb

Buy a lever valve and put the leaver on that. You don't want to -in some future date- be looking for a tool to turn that off in an emergency.

Sleeper12

Jasus the mention of a vice grips makes me cringe (no offence to op). 40 odd years on the tools and I've never had one in my van

CelticRambler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122471336#Comment_122471336

Looking at the shape of that fitting, I'd suspect someone took the lever off so they could fit that white connector.

@OP : if you're in a hard water area and that valve hasn't been opened/closed in a long time, chances are it's all gunged up and won't shut properly, even if you fit a new lever to it. I'd be more inclined to replace it with a new compact connection. Although you could plumb the new dishwasher directly onto what you've got there, it's an awful lot more convenient to be able to cut the water supply to the appliance alone, e.g. if ever it needs maintenance and you have to wait a couple of days for the job to be done.

nino1

I turned off the mains and attached the dishwater tube but I'm getting g a constant drip. I put plumbing tape on to see if it would sell it better but no luck. Any ideas what I could try next?

Markcheese

Is The drip from the new plastic nut ? Is the little rubber washer that fits in the plastic nut there ? And in good shape ?