Thread: Is there a plumber in the house

Garry

You need a water hammer arrester. A pipe is not clipped properly somewhere and so frequency or vibration is set up. You'll never find it so ;

Fit an in line water hammer arrester on the fitting at one of your outside taps. Bunnings should have em.

Pete ( A plumber in a previous life )

Originally Posted by land864

Garry

You need a water hammer arrester. A pipe is not clipped properly somewhere and so frequency or vibration is set up. You'll never find it so ;

Fit an in line water hammer arrester on the fitting at one of your outside taps. Bunnings should have em.

Pete ( A plumber in a previous life )

Thanks - so an anti hammer device will work even though the noise is not hammer?

Cheers

Garry

If I may - think of an anti hammer device as a steering damper. It evens out a number of different sorts of vibrations.

I've had noise from jumper valves spinning- fixed it by flattening shafts of valves, they are ment to be loose though. Also had noise from dome shaped valves- you should be able to isolate them if this is the cause
If noise has always been there it may be from a burr on inside of pipe- not much you can do about that-
If your pressure is high you could try reducing it with a limiting valve- if already fitted could possibly be source of noise? Reducing pressure may help with loose inaccessable pipe or burr's

I found fitting 2 to solve the issue in the ipswich house, one in the hot water and one in the cold water line, they sit behind the taps that feed the washing machine...

got them from bunnings and installing was simply a case of turn off the water unscrew the tap complete from the wall, screw in the arrestor and then screw the tap back on. (make sure you put the arresters in vertically or they fill up with water and do nothing)

Thanks for the comments.

I will cut the main water line into the house where it comes in and put an anti hammer device there - noting I do not have hammer as such but just a noisy vibration while taps are running.

Cheers

Garry

yeah so did I especially when the hot water was on in 2 places at once, a kind of whistle crossed with a rattle.