Vibrating Pipes Help! - Airlock?

Mudd14

Hello,

Hope someone can help. When i turn on my kitchen hot tap when it gets to a certain part the tap/pipes make an awfull vibrating noise and rattle around, is this an airlock in there?

Any ways to cure it?!

bevan840

My toilet does the same, so any answers would be great. It's a pain when the kids do it at 7.30AM on the weekend whan we don't have to be awake!! lol

Canucklehead

Mudd14 wrote: »

Hello,

Hope someone can help. When i turn on my kitchen hot tap when it gets to a certain part the tap/pipes make an awfull vibrating noise and rattle around, is this an airlock in there?

Any ways to cure it?!

Hi

It's the tap. A new washer should cure it. Strip it down and find out.

GSR.


PS.
bevan840.. You need to do the same thing, only use a ballvalve washer instead.

Weeyin

Re: Tap

Does the water splutter out? Was the water switched off in your area for any reason? If so, you could clear the air out by linking the hot and cold taps together with a piece of hose. Turn the hot tap on and allow the water to travel through the hose and into the cold tap. When it reaches the air bubble, it will burst it and clear the airlock.

saintlee

It does sound like the tap for the first poster, usually it is the "jumper", that is the brass piece that the washer sits on vibrating inside the shaft. turn the water off and remove the head.

Change the washer and clean up the stem of the jumper with some wire wall or abrasive sheet. put some grease over the stem and inside the shaft and refit the head.

this should solve the problem.

As for the guy with the ball valve. I would just change it rather than try to repair it.

beetlebum_2

I know my toilet has a torbeck valve and sometimes my pipes rattle as it shuts off the water quite rapidly. The same thing happens with my 1/4 turn taps on my basin. So basically, I know for a fact that it's due to a section of the pipework not being clipped in place. If the taps are closed slowly, it doesn't happen. Alas, getting the floor up now to remedy this isn't really a viable option.

saintlee

beetlebum wrote: »

I know my toilet has a torbeck valve and sometimes my pipes rattle as it shuts off the water quite rapidly. The same thing happens with my 1/4 turn taps on my basin. So basically, I know for a fact that it's due to a section of the pipework not being clipped in place. If the taps are closed slowly, it doesn't happen. Alas, getting the floor up now to remedy this isn't really a viable option.

The other thing worth looking at is your mains water pressure. If it is very high (above 4 bar) it may be worth fitting a pressure reducing valve in the circuit, to about 2 bar.

You can test this by buying a prssure guage in the plumbing section at b+q, which fits onto your washing machine valve or outside tap, it'll cost you less than a tenner.