Who to get to loosen brackets around heating pipes in loft

twopenny

So After 2 long threads and umpteen heating engineers - some turned up, some didn't - seems my remaining problem with noisy pipes is loosening the brackets and putting some soft padding under.

I was spun a tale by the guy who charged the most and didn't reply thereafter that the screws should be loosened and greased.

Yes, recommended twice but none offered to do it.

I'm scuppered with a leg injury from climbing around in the loft where the problem is.

I need to get someone to crawl up there and do this job.

What I don't know is - is this a handymans job? I would do it if I could.

How do you recognise the gas pipes from the water pipes?

I know where the noise is coming from on one side of the house/ceiling and my bungalow is tiny and simple. But the attic is small beams and it's going to be in the corner area near where wall meets roof. The layout may be obvious when up there as it's the old school tank and pipe that comes in from the boiler and spreads like fingers on a hand to the 7 small rads but I can't get there to see.

ThisIsWeird

I'd have thought, a handy person. Even a switched-on teenage sprog of a friend, family, or neighbour happy to earn a £20 note for a half hour's work - is there anyone?
Gas and water pipes could look the same, both often being identical copper, but do you think the gas pipe really does go via your loft? That's a bit unusual - tho' mine does
Where is your boiler, where is the meter, and how does the pipe run?

Lorian

What sort of noise and when does it happen.

twopenny

Thisisweird, the meter is on the right side of the bungalow pipe runs somewhere and ccomes out of the concrete  floor in the garage on the left. It runs under the garage door step and up to the boiler on the wall.

From there the hot water goes into the garage roof, along the living room ceiling - along the kitchen ceiling (both these rooms the ticking goes, louder the colder, and who knows where after that.

I have been told it's like a hand and the 'fingers' go down to the rads.

Yes it's a rubbish system, yes it's narrow bore to the radiators.

But need to deal with what I've got.

Thanks for the answer. I had a handyman coming before Christmas, was supposed to be a mate but he postphoned and is now on holiday for January. Shame because he's slender and agile which it might need.

I'll ring a couple, one does all sorts and one new one did a good job of a cat flap for my neighbour.

Lorain lets not go down that route It's been 6mts of not being able to get someone to do the whole job but the kettling has stopped (the last one) and the ticking remains. 2 said it would be the clips too tight. But how that would happen when it's run 6yrs just fine............but looked up on YTube and it seems right.

So far I've been told I need a new pump - no he didn't look anywhere or test.

I need a digital thermostat - heating was working fine till last year without one and in a bungalow the size of a large living room would be silly

I need special vents put in to release air -  aparantly the last guy said the vents were there and I had a self ventilating system  but his mate did something that stopped that noise. 

Unfortunately with the loss of our EU workers, the extensive lucrative work for tourism centres/new builds/Hinkley power station are moving 2000 more people into the area the local heating guys just aren't interested in small jobs or are booked up for months.

ThisIsWeird

Little risk of a gas pipe being in the loft, I'd have thought, then?

Do you have a gas fire, hob or cooker?

Yeah, just pluck a skinny wee tyke off t'road, and shove 'im up t'loft. Chip butty on t'way doon.

FreeBear

ThisIsWeird said: Yeah, just pluck a skinny wee tyke off t'road, and shove 'im up t'loft. Chip butty on t'way doon.

Or tempt a TiW with a bacon sarnie - Pretty sure he is down that neck of the woods (wrong side of the country for me).

ThisIsWeird

I am indeed - outside Bideford.

twopenny

Aw I'm the other side of Exmoor

Thanks for the reassuarance. As I wrote it I realised it was water and not gas......no idea why except lifes just thrown me a whole load of 'stuff' to deal with all at once and not being able to quietly put my feet up isnt helping.

Just had an email from the guy that came. All lagged, any new brackets and oiled screws £170. We are talking just a few meters of pipe here!

I've no doubt he'd do a good job but this is taking the proverbial.

I get a feeling that this is the guy who came to my last house and told me the electric immersion wouldn't work if the gas boiler wasn't working. 3rd time he's been available when no one else is but he came under 'disguise' when I'd phoned someone else.

Some phone calls to make. It's a good attic to work in, ladder/light/clean as built just narrow beams so will see what they say.