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Noisy plumbing
J_B
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Our nearly completed conversion project, a 4 bedroom holiday apartment on the Welsh coast, is nearing completion.
We have stayed there a few times now, but are concerned about the noise that the plumbing makes.
We have a gas system boiler.
Because we have a built in sprinkler system, the water pressure is high and we obviously can't reduce this for the sprinkler system and still like the powerful showers, BUT, when someone flushes the loo in the upstairs en-suite at the back of the house, the noise of the cistern filling up can be heard in the downstairs bedroom at the front of the house.
Are there any tweaks we can make t get more peace???
We have stayed there a few times now, but are concerned about the noise that the plumbing makes.
We have a gas system boiler.
Because we have a built in sprinkler system, the water pressure is high and we obviously can't reduce this for the sprinkler system and still like the powerful showers, BUT, when someone flushes the loo in the upstairs en-suite at the back of the house, the noise of the cistern filling up can be heard in the downstairs bedroom at the front of the house.
Are there any tweaks we can make t get more peace???
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My bet would be a low pressure cistern valve has been fitted to a high pressure fill toilet. Does exactly what you describe, heard it described as flushing the loo and it sounds like Niagara Falls. The opposite happens frequently too, a high pressure valve on a low pressure fill and the cistern takes half hour to fill.
You can easily regulate the pressure with all sorts of in line valves if you can get to the pipe work, even the humble 99p iso valve, just turn it to 3/4 off and watch the flow reduce to next to nothing.Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.0 -
you can put PRVs on any (cold water) pipe you want to control0
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I will ask the plumber ...Mr.Generous wrote: »My bet would be a low pressure cistern valve has been fitted to a high pressure fill toilet..
I *think* all the loos have isolators, I will look when we next visit.Mr.Generous wrote: »You can easily regulate the pressure with all sorts of in line valves if you can get to the pipe work, even the humble 99p iso valve, just turn it to 3/4 off and watch the flow reduce to next to nothing.
Google tells me that stands for 'Pressure Reducing Valve'you can put PRVs on any (cold water) pipe you want to control
Which one of these do you suggest?
https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/pressure-reducing-valves/cat3830010
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