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2 weeks ago our pipes in our house have developed a very annoying issue. (2 issues possibly related)
When we turn any tap on in our house, or flush the toilet. We get an annoying whistle sound somewhere in our bathroom. We are yet to find out where exactly as it sounds like its all over.
Before this problem emerged, we had another issue. If we had the kitchen tap on downstairs and ran the bath tap at the same time, the kitchen tap wouldn't turn off properly as the water pressure was too low and it made a drumming type noise I'm assuming this could be resolved by looking inside the tap at the washers/ceramic plates.
But our main issue is the whistling...
To help diagnose this hopefully... Our water comes in through the rear of the building, past the stop cock is a full bore isolation valve (as the stopcock was very stiff /weathered when we moved in and wouldn't actually turn off fully)
The pipe then travels to a T junction and feeds the kitchen taps on the right. And goes upstairs directly to the bathroom.
In the bathroom it then has a t junction to the bath, a t junction to the shower, then a t junction to the sink taps, and one to the toilet. These 4 junctions are across a 6 foot span.
After this the pipe then leads to the boiler and terminates here. (then comes back out in reverse with the kitchen hot tap as the end of the line.
I have read high water pressure can cause this, but if the problem is upstairs when the downstairs tap is on there is no water been forced out of an upstairs faucet?
Could anyone please offer any advice?
Thanks.
When we turn any tap on in our house, or flush the toilet. We get an annoying whistle sound somewhere in our bathroom. We are yet to find out where exactly as it sounds like its all over.
Before this problem emerged, we had another issue. If we had the kitchen tap on downstairs and ran the bath tap at the same time, the kitchen tap wouldn't turn off properly as the water pressure was too low and it made a drumming type noise I'm assuming this could be resolved by looking inside the tap at the washers/ceramic plates.
But our main issue is the whistling...
To help diagnose this hopefully... Our water comes in through the rear of the building, past the stop cock is a full bore isolation valve (as the stopcock was very stiff /weathered when we moved in and wouldn't actually turn off fully)
The pipe then travels to a T junction and feeds the kitchen taps on the right. And goes upstairs directly to the bathroom.
In the bathroom it then has a t junction to the bath, a t junction to the shower, then a t junction to the sink taps, and one to the toilet. These 4 junctions are across a 6 foot span.
After this the pipe then leads to the boiler and terminates here. (then comes back out in reverse with the kitchen hot tap as the end of the line.
I have read high water pressure can cause this, but if the problem is upstairs when the downstairs tap is on there is no water been forced out of an upstairs faucet?
Could anyone please offer any advice?
Thanks.
