Recently bought a house and having a few plumbing issues. Water pressure is good and nothing appears to be leaking, but the pipework leading from the bathroom to the tank in the loft has a strange quirk. Sometimes, when you flush the toilet or run water in the sink, the pipework under the floor makes a very loud high-frequency hum. You can literally feel the vibration coming through the floor tiles, and as you walk out of the room the sound seems to be coming from the route the pipes take to the tank (bathroom, landing, airing cupboard and into the loft space).
The noise goes on until the cistern is filled (which takes a longer than it should). It's annoying, but also, my worry is that it will cause joints to fail over time. It doesn't happen every time. Maybe once in every ten flushes of the toilet.
A previous owner of the house was a very keen, but very inept, DIY enthusiast. Corners have been cut everywhere and his work is very extremely sloppy and haphazard (cupboards and shelves glued to walls, silicone sealant used instead of Polyfiller, etc). He had seemingly tried to fix the vibration by driving steel screws into the water outlet in the cistern - presumably with the intention of slowing the flow or water by partially blocking the pipe. It was when I found these and removed them that the vibration started. I'm not sure if the vibration is caused by something he's done, or not done, to the pipework.
Is there there a particular reason pipework vibrates? Any straightforward fix I can apply? Had considered cutting a length of flexible pipework in near the tank to deaden the vibration, but don't know if that's the way to go. Any thoughts gratefully received.
The noise goes on until the cistern is filled (which takes a longer than it should). It's annoying, but also, my worry is that it will cause joints to fail over time. It doesn't happen every time. Maybe once in every ten flushes of the toilet.
A previous owner of the house was a very keen, but very inept, DIY enthusiast. Corners have been cut everywhere and his work is very extremely sloppy and haphazard (cupboards and shelves glued to walls, silicone sealant used instead of Polyfiller, etc). He had seemingly tried to fix the vibration by driving steel screws into the water outlet in the cistern - presumably with the intention of slowing the flow or water by partially blocking the pipe. It was when I found these and removed them that the vibration started. I'm not sure if the vibration is caused by something he's done, or not done, to the pipework.
Is there there a particular reason pipework vibrates? Any straightforward fix I can apply? Had considered cutting a length of flexible pipework in near the tank to deaden the vibration, but don't know if that's the way to go. Any thoughts gratefully received.