"Rod Hewitt" wrote in message
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Well good ol' neighbours. They have a problem with their water supply.
Several times a day it makes an awful noise - trying to describe it I
came up with foghorn - but a bit higher pitched.

What is worrying us is that the vibrations are coming up through our
separate mains and making our pipework vibrate quite seriously. My feet
can feel it through our concrete floor several feet away from where our
main comes up. Despite the two pipes splitting several metres away and
being underground.

They have had it suggested to them (by someone) that their stopcock
needs replacing, but I can't quite get my head around what could be
wrong to make this amount of noise and vibration. It does not seem to
occur every time that they draw any water - but only from time to time.
Oddly, always sometime around 18:00 to 18:30 and going on for anything
from a minute to maybe quarter of an hour. The only mechanism that I can
think of that could make this noise is water being forced back through a
dodgy non-return valve.

We would like it sorted and reckon that our best way of achieving it is
to point out to their landlords that there is some danger (if there
really is). Otherwise we might have to live with it for several weeks
until arse is gotten into gear.

Any suggestions on what is really happening here?

Rod


We had a neighbour a few years back with the same problem as this, and the
plumber found out it was the rubber washer in the main stopcock had fallen off
the head gear. It was vibrating like a reed on a clarinet, right through all
the pipework in the area. The houses we lived in were all timber construction
and the vibrations used to shake the whole house. It even caused ripples across
the top of the pool.


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