On Thu, 14 May 2015 10:52:49 +0100, Chris French
wrote:

In message , AnthonyL
writes
I'm in an old (1860) semi-detached cottage and hear when the neighbour
has water running in the bathroom - I think it is when the cistern is
refilling. It is quite annoying at 2am.

The water pipe from the mains is shared but I'm not conscious of
similar sounds during the day when I guess the kitchen taps must be in
use.

Anything to be done? Is it likely that I'm hearing the sound direct
or through our water pipes? How do I ascertain?

IME (we have two mains incomers, separated by maybe10-15 m of
underground pipe). We get noise in the pipe of one, when the is draw on
the other one (but not the other way round)

If it coming through the pipe it's more a hissing/water in pipes kind of
noise as opposed to actually hearing water trickling if you are hearing
the sound directly.


It's a hissing/white noise type of thing we seems to slowly taper off
in the time scale that one expects a toilet cistern to fill.

It feels as if the sound is being carried through our own water pipes.
I don't know if our sounds are reciprocated and unfortunately I don't
get on with said neighbour (f) who seems to attract men friends who
need the loo half the night.




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AnthonyL