HELP! Creaky Radiators

UKJubilee_2

Just recently my bedroom radiator has started to creak as it warms up and cools down...it sounds like a really loud drip!

It's so loud it's woken my housemate up in the next room and I am normally awake at 4am when it comes on as a result...

Has anyone met this and bar turning off the heating is there anything I can do to stop it and get a good nights beauty sleep?




Thankyou

alanobrien

UKJubilee wrote:

Just recently my bedroom radiator has started to creak as it warms up and cools down...it sounds like a really loud drip!

It's so loud it's woken my housemate up in the next room and I am normally awake at 4am when it comes on as a result...

Has anyone met this and bar turning off the heating is there anything I can do to stop it and get a good nights beauty sleep?




Thankyou

I doubt you need the beauty sleep

As a first action I would bleed the rads first to make sure there is no air in the system causing vibration.

UKJubilee_2

lol I can wish!!

Thanks...Will give that ago...mine gets hot all the way up to the top, so hadn't thought of trying this.

penrhyn

Are you running your heating 24hrs a day?
This must be costing a lot to run.
Shirley you could switch it off at midnight and on again at 7am or whatever.

Sweet dreams!

UKJubilee_2

no just a few hours before I get up in the morning and a few hours in the evening.

S_Barford

The creaking is due to expansion and contraction of the pipes as they heat up and cool down. Put some insulating foam around the pipes and this should prevent it