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Was John Bonham alive in the first place?

Yup....it's boxed in as it passes up from the crawl space to the 1st floor meaning that I can't see if it's been secured - but I've fixed the vertical movement now by supportig the pipe at the bottom (and popped on some lagging too). I've just had my first pipe banging free weekend but luckily...

Happy ending to my pipe story....followed the culprit pipe down right to the crawl space beneath the ground floor to find that one of the pipes had come away from it's clip and had dropped down by 2-3cm - causing it to rub on the plasterboard ceiling of the room above. So, by gently pushing the...

...it certainly isn't Whole Lotta Love........believe me!!!!

Right then.....managed to get the floorboards up to find the culprit - one of the central heating pipes is tight flush to the plasterboard ceiling of the room below. As I can't really gouge down into the 9.5mm thick plasterboard without damaging downstairs can I gently pull the offending pipe up...

Nothing at all - providing they don't play live under my floorboards at 6 in the morning (pesky rock stars - up all night!!)

Thanks again - I'll be spending most of the weekend dismantling my sons bedroom to find these pipes - I've isolated the banging to 4 specific areas so it does seem likely that it's the pipes rubbing against joists. I've been told to pad out these rubbing areas with soft felt and use standard...

Cheers lots for the advice - will investigate the pipes at the weekend. Would reducing the operating pressure or central heating boiler temperature also help? I live in Leeds - you can't mess with squirrels up here.

Help me please......I've just had a brand new Vokera compact combi boiler installed in repacement for an v. old imersion system using the same pipes & radiators (all of which bar one have thermostatic valves). It works fine and heats up water quickly however once the central heating starts the...