My faucet was in need of attention so went below the sink, shut off the valves, unscrewed the supply lines, cleaned the faucet put everything back and now the water won't turn back on at the valves. It's not the faucet.
Any ideas?
Plumbing – No water flow after closing and reopening shutoff valve
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With those valve handles in that position, yes, this should shut off the water to your house.
Sounds like you have some misconfigured plumbing somewhere. Trace the plumbing from where it enters your house from the utility and make sure that its first (and only) stop is the water softener.
I've dealt with these before. The flex pipe is silver soldered into the valve body, probably a product design of the day to dispense with having a problematic compression fitting that would eventually leak.
If you loosen the nut from the pipe nipple, the valve body and flex supply line pipe will be rotatable to position it for a direct lineup to the faucet inlet.
Even if the other end of the metal flex supply line is compatible with the faucet (sounds like it isn't), brass and copper flex work harden from bending into position and can crack if disturbed for later repairs, so I don't recommend reusing it. The only way to fix this is to replace the shutoff valve with a 1/2" to 3/8" right angle shutoff. The newer ones available are nice quarter turn units. Remove the compression fitting nut and ferrule and the 3/8" supply line should thread right on. They use a neoprene flat washer now that gets rid of the leak problem the original silver-soldered supply line was meant to prevent.
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I have found on old valves the valve stem separates from the gate. they close fine but then it feels like it is opening but is broke. You will probably need to turn the water to the house off , bleed the pressure off and remove the valve and install a new one.