Pipes noise!

spidereyes

Hi, I really hope someone can help.....

Im being driven mad by a "fog horn" noise which resonates through the pipes. Its got worse over the last few months, happens constantly throughout the day and can last for minutes at a time. It has no correlation to running water and happens randomly also in the dead of night.

My landlord is aware of the issue but typically the one time he came round for the day to do some work at the property it didn't happen


After being kept awake for the last week by the intermittent noise I did some investigating and have tried (and failed) to fix.
After a Google I thought it might be an air lock in the pipes, have located the stopcock and turned the water off and run the taps etc.

About 15 mins later its happened again lasting for an age!
Anyway the stopcock is located behind my kitchen drawers, someone has cut a small hole in the back board to access and it would appear that it seems to be this pipe/section of pipes which is causing the noise. I can feel they are vibrating but Ive felt around what I can reaching through the hole and there doesn't seem to be any change in the noise by pushing/pulling the pipes slightly so doesn't seem to suggest they are vibrating against anything.

Could this be a water pressure issue? If so is there anything I can do bearing in mind access to these pipes is almost non-existent?

Help much appreciated

keystone

It won't be air. What it will be is a loose (or knackered) washer in a tap or the loo fill valve. From what you say it sounds as though its the stopcock. You need to turn off water supply in the street and get the stopcock serviced - probably a whole new set of innards is best.

Cheers

Myser

Someone I know had a similar problem in their house. It was the inlet valve on the toilet cistern and the sound was resonating down the pipework. May be worth checking that first.