Outside Tap

quinn21

We have an outside tap in our garden which we have disconnected. When it rains really heavy we hear running water like its draining away exactly where the tap is.
Anyone have any idea to what this might be?

Southend1

Does your gutter discharge into a drain underneath the tap? It may have been covered over?

quinn21

No, there is no drain next to the tap, the guttering and downpipe is at least 3ft away. Like I said this only happens when it is raining very heavily. I was wondering if somehow water is getting into the tap and coming back in. there is a very small hole in the tap pipe.

societys_child

If there as a small hole in the pipe you'd have a fountain from the mains pressure, I'd have thought . . .

Don't think water can "get back in"

DevCoder

Sound can be deceiving, and although water can find paths of least resistance are you sure its not just the drain the down pipe runs into ?

quinn21

Sorry I made a mistake , the downpipe is at least 10ft away.
The noise is quite loud you can hear it when you are in the house. This has been happening for a number of years but our back garden use to flood and we thought it was that. We recentlly done our garden up to sort this flooding which it has but the noise is still there .

DevCoder

Whats on the inside of the house near where you hear this sound?

Kernel_Sanders

quinn21 wrote: »

When it rains really heavy we hear running water like its draining away

Maybe it's the sudden rush of rainwater hitting a bend in an underground drainage pipe that you are hearing.

cyclonebri1

quinn21 wrote: »

We have an outside tap in our garden which we have disconnected. When it rains really heavy we hear running water like its draining away exactly where the tap is.
Anyone have any idea to what this might be?

Hang on this isn't clear.
Do you mean you have an outside tap attached to the house that is now disconnected?

Or is it a stand pipe in the garden that is now disused?

I just have this vision of you standing in the kitchen with an open pipe and stop !!!! acting as a megaphone:D:D


If it is actually in the garden, the pipe could have been installed in a length of drainage pipe underground for protection, which could be doing just that, draining, when it rains.

quinn21

We had the tap install ourselves, it runs under the floorboards to the outside wall. The noise we hear comes from our livingroom but only at the wall near where the tap is, We had the tap disconnected last year as it bursted with the frost.

DevCoder

I'd be lifting those floorboards to be honest...