Banging/ticking next to radiator in bedroom

Ciel

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• Jan 25, 2019

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Hi.
There's a ticking/banging in my bedroom wall, next to my radiator.
I took a video and uploaded it to youtube for a more accurate gauge of what's going on:


A plumber came previous to the video, and took off the trv knob, since he thought it was that - it didn't help, unfortunately.

In November 2018, I got a new boiler, and the sounds started coming about, around then.

Any thoughts on what it could be?

 

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• Jan 25, 2019

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sounds like pipework expanding

 

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• Jan 25, 2019

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ShaunCorbs said:

sounds like pipework expanding

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What's the solution? And is it damaging anything at the moment?

 

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• Jan 25, 2019

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its rubbing against something / too tight, find where its in contact and put a piece of hair felt round the pipe

tbh no its not

 

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• Jan 26, 2019

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I has a noise similar to that in my bedroom when I fitted a new rad. Only used to get it from stone cold in the morning. Turned out it was because I hadn’t fitted those little plastic 'U' shaped clips into the new rad brackets. The old rad didn’t have them fitted but then again it didn’t get that hot. I thought there might have been something inside and when I mentioned it to the plumbers merchants where I bought the rad, they asked if I’d fitted them. Luckily I hadn’t thrown them away and fitting them stopped the noise.

 

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• Jan 26, 2019

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I'd agree with Steve57 here, the high pitch sounds more metallic than pipe against wood and more like metal rad brackets against metal fixings on back of rad.
Also a very easy one to checkout, look behind rad, are there little white plastic clips on the rad brackets where the rad hangs on them?
Like the following:

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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JCplumb said:

I'd agree with Steve57 here, the high pitch sounds more metallic than pipe against wood and more like metal rad brackets against metal fixings on back of rad.
Also a very easy one to checkout, look behind rad, are there little white plastic clips on the rad brackets where the rad hangs on them?
Like the following:
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No, there isn't anything like that on the back.

So thatst the issue?? Should I just go out and buy some and install it?

 

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• Jan 27, 2019

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Yep. The radiator will sit a couple of mm higher once they're on so need a little bit of movement on your pipes, but there's a good chance it will stop the noise.