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So my house suffers from bad water hammer, worse with the washing machine or dishwasher. It bangs through the whole house and more prominently in cupboards that run up to the attic.
From previous chats with a neighbor two owners a go son was a plumber so "it should be in good condition" from my experience your son was a cowboy. In the crawl space CH pipes hanging in mid air, looking like they once where supported by a bent over coat hanger fed through joists.
Anyway...
So investigating the issue the main in comer t junctions off, one up one down. Upstairs in-line cupboard is blocked off (big wardrobe) and pipe work blocked in so up in the attic where I knew there was a valve before. Proper investigation reveals that this valve is part of a loop round system, again not secured to anything in the attic.
Pipe comes up vertical, turns horizontal, does a 90, valve, 90, back to vertical. It looks like it once fed the water tank (there's two unused upthere) and been turned around at this point to go back somewhere...only thing is I'm not sure where it goes to.
Cupboard down stairs has the main water pipe, 2xCH pipes and three that are either blocked off or left open (I'd love to remove them but don't see how without dismantling half the house). This matches with what's been left the same in the attic.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Obviously going to try and investigate further but was looking for a starting point.
From previous chats with a neighbor two owners a go son was a plumber so "it should be in good condition" from my experience your son was a cowboy. In the crawl space CH pipes hanging in mid air, looking like they once where supported by a bent over coat hanger fed through joists.
Anyway...
So investigating the issue the main in comer t junctions off, one up one down. Upstairs in-line cupboard is blocked off (big wardrobe) and pipe work blocked in so up in the attic where I knew there was a valve before. Proper investigation reveals that this valve is part of a loop round system, again not secured to anything in the attic.
Pipe comes up vertical, turns horizontal, does a 90, valve, 90, back to vertical. It looks like it once fed the water tank (there's two unused upthere) and been turned around at this point to go back somewhere...only thing is I'm not sure where it goes to.
Cupboard down stairs has the main water pipe, 2xCH pipes and three that are either blocked off or left open (I'd love to remove them but don't see how without dismantling half the house). This matches with what's been left the same in the attic.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Obviously going to try and investigate further but was looking for a starting point.