changing tap washers on hot water taps
Hopefully this isn't too dumb a question .
I want to change the tap washers on my hot water taps. I've done this before in my house in England and turned the hotwater off where it exited the hot water tank then just ran the surplus out of the pipes.
My hot water tank in the new house sits in the laundry. It is electrically heated and large enough to hold a dead body or two. So far I haven't been able to find anything that looks like a tap associated with it ( I've even been under the house among the spiders and inspected the pipework ).
Do I have to run off a whole tank full of water ( or at least enough until the level in the tank is below the top of the pipe to the tap .. a lot of water ) or am I just not looking hard enough for somewhere to turn the hot water off, or .......:confused: