Got any good strategies to quiet down plumbing? Adding on a bathroom- plumbing wall is adjacent to bedroom. It seems that some shower valves are pretty noisy. Know of any brands that are quieter than others? Thank you in advance.
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cast iron.
Make sure it's not the shower head. I've got one that squeals like a pig.
That for everybody? Or just when it sees you? <G>PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
LOL. Good one!
But, but, it's a happy squeal.
Does the other one have a purty mouf ?
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Install hammer arresters near the fixtures. Will help eliminate some chatter. But a lot of chatter/squeal is due to the specific fixture.
Water pipes can be quieted slightly by wrapping with insulation. This will help prevent noise from the valves being transmitted into the pipes and spread from there.
Hammer arresters, thats a good point and I've used them before. What about the
type you can make yourself, you know adding a leg of vertical tubing or pipe near
your valve. Or is it worth the extra expense of the manufactured type. I'm mainly
aiming to quiet the noise of the water through the valve and I suspect that the mass
of the valve casting has something to do with it. Anyone have any thoughts here?
> What about the type you can make yourself, you know adding a leg of vertical tubing or pipe near your valve.
That's called a dry riser. It used to be done a lot in the old days. They work fine for a while, but the air in the riser slowly dissolves into the water and gets carried away, to be replaced by water. When that happens, you can turn off the main valve entering the house, and open the affected faucets to let the water out and re-fill the riser with air. Because domestic water pressure is typically 40 - 70 psi, figure it might take as much as five times the volume of the riser at atmospheric pressure to fill it with air at your water pressure.
If you can live with that routine maintenance task of re-charging the dry risers from time to time (a few months to maybe a year), it works fine. For a longer term solution, get the manufactured ones that have a diaphragm to keep the air from dissolving.
-- J.S.
All of the above plus insulate the wall before boarding it.
Wally
turn off the house water...
install a remote bathroom facility...
200 yards away...
cast iron DWV...
don't let pipes rest directly to / on the framing members...
foam insulate all the pipes you can...
foam pipe insulation between the pipes and framing members or pass thru holes...
stop all the resonation or chage the frequency of it every chance you get...
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I don't have many good ideas about how to make your bathroom quieter but if I send you my overhead flushing water closet my bathroom will be a lot quieter, sounds like a 747 taking off.