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Apologies AGAS - I have just come back and see this. All was sorted by a Checkatrade plumber. New washer for the F+E tank ball joint and a full replacement for the cold water tank ball joint. Thanks again for all of your help.

I'm happy to go with whoever can get here at a convenient time - as long as the price isn't ridiculous. I have a spanner, don't have a clue where the stopcock is or it's state, and in this case would like someone to also do a service of our system and boiler.

I'm waiting for quotes from 3 local plumbers, but thought I'd update to say the same sound happened after this morning's shower. I went in the roof and when depressing the float in the main tank, the sound did stop (thanks, Pete!) however as soon as I stopped pressing it, the sound returned...

Thanks for the suggestion Bernard - I've now got a local plumber providing a quote for a new ball valve. Thanks again for all of your help.

Thanks very much, Pete. Greatly appreciated. I'll give that a go next time the sound happens and if all goes as you suspect, I'll look into options for getting it replaced. 10 years renting properties means little real world access to fixing these types of things, so rather than make a mess it...

Thanks for the response, Pete. Would the ball valve assembly for the main water tank be linked to the float valve in the expansion tank? Opening the float valve instantly stops the sound. Would replacing the ball valve assembly be something you can do yourself or is it best to get a plumber in?

Hi all, Apologies for the lack of knowledge here, but I will try and progress with what the internet has taught me so far. We bought our first house exactly a year ago, and all has been fine with the boiler and hot water system though the initial survey advised that the boiler was 20 years old...