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The Surestop Remote Water Switch (15mm - SS/15/REM)
We will continue to supply the existing Remote Water Switch (SS/15/REM) in its present form. The Water Switch is WRAS approved as a service valve and therefore needs to be installed alongside the existing stopcock
Price from €130.00 installed.
Surestop Stopcock (15mm - SS/15/SPL) The new Surestop Stopcock is "a direct replacement for your brass stopcock", and is WRAS approved for use as a stopcock. Ideal for installations where pipework is easily accessible. This product now replaces the Direct Water Switch (Surestop product codes SS/15/DIR.)
Price from €110 installed |
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Welcome to the Specifiers Home Page
If you could revisit a home that was built 100 years ago, It would have been heated by coal fires, lit by gas lights, and the mains water supply in the property would have been controlled with a brass valve called a stopcock.
In the last 100 years we have seen fantastic innovation in the way modern homes are built.
Our homes are kept warm with central heating and thermostatic controls which can now be wirelessly operated. We can also control our lighting at the flick of a switch, but we still control our water supply with a difficult to turn stopcock!
So why is this a problem?
Every other service that we use in our home has evolved so that a homeowner can easily access it and use it. However in today’s new homes the
brass stopcock is normally hidden behind our fitted kitchens. Out of sight is out of mind, and as a result 30% of the population do not know where their stopcock is located and are therefore powerless to do anything in the event of a water leak.
For the elderly or the 10 million people in the UK who suffer with arthritis the brass stopcock is almost impossible to use.
This inability to control mains water in our homes has meant that insurance claims for escape of water have doubled since 1993, and escape of water is now a bigger risk for insurers than fire or burglary. During December 2010 there were over 100,000 UK insurance claims for burst pipes at an average cost of £6700 each.
However there is now a solution
The new range of Surestop stopcocks and water switches now allow you to easily control your mains water supply at the flick of a switch. Our remote water switches can easily be located in an accessible position such as just above the worktop or inside a kitchen cupboard door.
The Surestop was invented in the UK and is manufactured using components from UK suppliers. Since its launch in 2001 hundreds of thousands have been sold. The Surestop is specified by over 250 different local authorities and housing associations as well a large installation groups such as British Gas and Homeserve.
The Surestop is:
- Takes less than an hour install.
- Operated by water pressure – so requires no batteries or electrical connections
- Unaffected by lime-scale
- WRAS approved as a stopcock
- Available for 15mm and 22mm pipe-work
As well as providing real benefits for the homeowner there are significant benefits for the house builder. The Lifetime Homes standards which apply to the private sector in 2013 state that all emergency controls should be located between 450 and 1200mm. The Surestop provides easy compliance.
Putting right the damage caused by burst pipes and water leaks in the first two years of occupation is a significant potential cost for the housebuilder.
