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[FONT=&]Hi Good Day! I am new here and would like to seek good advice in this forum, for disturbance noises caused by faulty water pipe system. [/FONT][FONT=&]
I live in a 5th floor unit of Singapore public housing, in recent months it has been a loud “knocking” noise intermittently coming from the upper floor and it’s a serious disturbance noise even it happening in the middle of night, my family has been trying to endure but the problem does not seem to go away.
I had spoken to an upper floor neighbour and he is aware the noise existence, he advised me to provide a feedback to water department for a remedy action, I've follow a called to water department and a team arrived on-site for assistance, however they can’t carried out further checks for the problem as there were no one at home in upper floor neighbour’s unit they advised me to contact local town council for help, as they explained that the problem could be possible the water piping systems structure problem.
I've follow up contacted local town council and their team did a round of checking, interviewed the upper floor neighbour unit owner but claimed that the family member are not aware of such disturbance noises, hence the team needs to further investigate the problem to determine the root cause.
I’ve noticed that the pipe knocking noises were more intensive frequent in the night from around 8.30 pm onward and I‘ve searched google website and found some information which describes as follow:
{…Knocking noise or sound in water pipes can be due to several reasons, but if there is a ‘knocking’ sound from the water piping, this is known as Water Hammer.This can be heard when the tap turn off quickly and it could be caused by either faulty jumpers in stopcocks at the meter position or pipes which are not securely fastened.
As the moving water in the pipe is suddenly stopped, a shock wave is created through the water which causes inadequately fastened pipes to vibrate and ‘shudder’, thus creating the knocking sound......}
I would like to seek some good advices from this forum here about this noise, whether could be the suspect possible root cause by faulty jumpers in stopcocks (main stop valve?) or water piping system structure not securely fastened cause a random “1 or 2 echo loud knocking noise” intermittently ?
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[FONT=&]I hope this would be helpful for anyone good advices here and I would be grateful this issue can be resolved soon.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Thank you and best regards.[/FONT]
I live in a 5th floor unit of Singapore public housing, in recent months it has been a loud “knocking” noise intermittently coming from the upper floor and it’s a serious disturbance noise even it happening in the middle of night, my family has been trying to endure but the problem does not seem to go away.
I had spoken to an upper floor neighbour and he is aware the noise existence, he advised me to provide a feedback to water department for a remedy action, I've follow a called to water department and a team arrived on-site for assistance, however they can’t carried out further checks for the problem as there were no one at home in upper floor neighbour’s unit they advised me to contact local town council for help, as they explained that the problem could be possible the water piping systems structure problem.
I've follow up contacted local town council and their team did a round of checking, interviewed the upper floor neighbour unit owner but claimed that the family member are not aware of such disturbance noises, hence the team needs to further investigate the problem to determine the root cause.
I’ve noticed that the pipe knocking noises were more intensive frequent in the night from around 8.30 pm onward and I‘ve searched google website and found some information which describes as follow:
{…Knocking noise or sound in water pipes can be due to several reasons, but if there is a ‘knocking’ sound from the water piping, this is known as Water Hammer.This can be heard when the tap turn off quickly and it could be caused by either faulty jumpers in stopcocks at the meter position or pipes which are not securely fastened.
As the moving water in the pipe is suddenly stopped, a shock wave is created through the water which causes inadequately fastened pipes to vibrate and ‘shudder’, thus creating the knocking sound......}
I would like to seek some good advices from this forum here about this noise, whether could be the suspect possible root cause by faulty jumpers in stopcocks (main stop valve?) or water piping system structure not securely fastened cause a random “1 or 2 echo loud knocking noise” intermittently ?
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[FONT=&]I hope this would be helpful for anyone good advices here and I would be grateful this issue can be resolved soon.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Thank you and best regards.[/FONT]