We’ve recently noticed a sound throughout the house everytime a toilet is flushed that sounds like a helicopter is flying overhead. The sound lasts for 10-15 seconds and gradually diminishes. It happens after the flush, while the tank is refilling. No other water usage seems to reproduce this noise.
It seems to have started after a minor plumbing leak was repaired about a month ago…repair involved only a couple feet of pipe and an elbow, and it isn’t on the same run as the toilets or the origin of the noise. We did have the pipes drained a couple times for the repair.
Any chance there could be a bubble of air somewhere that results in a strange noise like this? If so, what do you do? Any suggestions would be welcomed.
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The filler valve diaphram is fluttering... Change it out...
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hey guys... I think they have shrunk the black helos
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every one knows that Black Helos are silent ----had to be one of those russian black helos...............Spying...........or........something.
with them that small and basicly in a tunnel acting as an echo chamber or amplifier... Not so sure about quiet any more...
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I thought about the diaphragm valve fluttering as the cause, but the noise occurs when any of our toilets (4) is refilling. I'm thinking there is air in the pipes somewhere that is creating this "reed" effect. Could be unique to the design of our system, but I thought there might be someone out there who had seen this situation before.
Lbello,
Try lifting all four flapper valves in the toilets, (so the tanks do not fill,) for about 15 minutes. Also turn on the cold water fitures in the BRs. This hi volume, fast flow should flush (hehe) any air (if exists) out of your system.
SamT
Thanks!
I did hold open the flappers on the toilets and open up many fixtures for 15 min , as recommended. The noise is gone! For what it is worth, also noted that afterwards a couple of sinks had very reduced flow...lots of debris in the aerators. These weren't on the same trunk line as the repair. Who knows? Maybe it was air, maybe the draining and refilling of the lines shot out collections of granular sediment from our well tank which lodged somewhere and made the noise. Probably should install a sediment filter here.
Thanks for the advice.
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You have something "loose" that moves in and out, blocking and unblocking the line, as the water flows.
Most commonly this is in the valve at the fixture.
But it can also be the main shut off valve, a pressure reducing valve if you have one.
Or in this debrie from the repair. Either something that broke off or lots of excess solider that got into the pipe.
During the full refill cycle or just at the end of the cycle...
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WOW!!! What a Ride!