Help all the pipes are banging in the house, its driving me mad

googler

keystone wrote: »

Fitting a shock arrestor is one approach but, again, I regard it as treating the symptom not the cause and would only suggest this as a last resort.

Yes, but if the problem is the surge being caused by the neighbours' fact-acting valves, taps etc then the OP has no choice, other than ask the neighbour to change their plumbing....

keystone

But why should it be the neighbours based on the evidence we have presented?

Edit: Yes exactly. IFthey are on a shared service and IF its a fast acting valve or a dodgy ball/float valve in the neighbours property then fixing that is the first action.

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toejumper

my water is connected to the neighbors as well, the neighbour has refused entry on to his property to lower the pressure as the tap is on his drive so just been on the phone to the water board and they agree its a water pressure problem, they are coming out on tuesday to sort it out. so fingers crossed. i think the dog is fed up of the banging to each time they bang she thinks there's someone at the door and starts barking.

keystone

Ahh so it is a shared service. Sorry Googler.

toejumper - please note what I said about pressure and flow rate earlier. By throttling back the water company's stopcock you would only be reducing the flow rate and not the pressure.

Do you have a NFH refusing entry for such a minor thing?

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toejumper

Thanks guys, yep i have a neighbour from hell. as i said i spoke to the water board and they said he cant refuse me entry to the tap as it not his to dictate as its there for the hole street to us in a emergency. But at leased there coming out on tuesday so he can f and blind at them and not me. he wouldn't know good neighbours if they bit him on the @rse. he now nows its a problem for us and he keeps turning his water on and of constantly. dd is now in bed so i think were in for a ruff night :mad:

keystone

They are correct inasmuch as they can just walk on his property and do it. However from what you've said I'd be careful about you entering his property yourself even in an emergency. Turning off his water just because you have an emergency will probably bring the powers of Hades down about your neck. I'd make sure your own internal stopcock works for that eventuality and operate it annually to make sure it does.

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toejumper

have no intention in getting a dispute over this that's why iv`e left in the hands of the water board. But like the others have said it such a minor thing its not worth the upset.