Banging Noise from Neighbours Apartment

HelsBelz_2

Hi There,

I have a noise problem which I think is water hammer coming from the flat upstairs. Every morning, I am woken up by a very loud banging noise on the ceiling. It sounds like a woodpecker with a hammer in its mouth. I can also hear the shower running upstairs and the banging noise stops when the running water sound stops. It’s been going on for about a year and has gradually got worse to the point where it now wakes me up with a jump every morning!

So my question is really about who is responsible for fixing it. Myself, the neighbour or the building’s management company? What would be the best way to approach this?

Thank you in advance for your advice.

caleyles

Are you sure it's the water thats banging and not your neighbours?:whistle:

On a more serious note if you say the noise stops when the shower stops running could this
A. Be a noise from the drain - hot water in plastic pipes can make terrible sounds due to expansion and contraction when tight in wood - obviously stopping when the shower stops running
B. Possibly be a power shower i.e. with an integral or external pump and it's just the sound of the pump running you are hearing resonating through the building
C. water hammer through the ballvalve in a cold water storage cistern refilling when the shower is being used, though if the shower is causing this then this would probably mean a system with hot water cylinder and storage tank are in use therefore you would expect to hear it when hot taps are being used as the storage tank would also be filling then.
4. Water hammer through the main sd valve but unlikely as this would happen not only when the shower was running.
I think you need to speak politely to your neighbours and try to determine the actual cause before you can find a cure. Get them to turn on the shower ideally when you are in their flat and try to narrow it down to where the noise is coming from.

Tom_Jones

Perhaps it's the headboard :eek:

HelsBelz_2

Well I actually thought it was one of those alarms that bounce around at first, but the banging sound only happens when upstairs has a shower – at 6:30am every morning. It doesn’t happen when they flush the loo or use the taps (I can hear the water running from my flat – it’s a 7year old flat with thin walls!). I’ve been listening to it for a year now so I’ve got a pretty good idea that it’s the shower that’s causing it. I know that the showers in this block of apartments are high pressured. It’s a really loud banging noise that occurs every half a second for about 5 minutes. It’s just like a loud hammering noise and it wakes me up every morning. So I guess that I need to go and speak to the guys upstairs then, but what do I do if it is the shower that’s causing the problem?

diable

Tom_Jones wrote: »

Perhaps it's the headboard :eek:

Could also be a knocking shop......