Noisy pipes
 

My 2 story house is about 22 years old.

This morning I was on the first floor while my wife was washing up on the
second. The pipes were pretty noisy; more than I remember hearing before.

This concerns me because 2 years ago I replaced some ceiling tiles in the
basement and found that a 20' run of pipes had pulled free of all the pipe
hangers and was just shaking around. I reinstalled better hangers and it
seems fine, but it worries me about the plumbing quality in general.

I don't know much about plumbing, but presumably the pipes upstairs run
though holes in joist and can't move around much?

Should I be concerned about the noise?
Is there anything, other than ripping up the floors and walls, to be done
about this?

Thanks.

22 years ago a few builders started using floor trusses instead of joists,
sometimes only on upper floors. In that case, the pipes would be using the
same poorly installed hangers. Unlikely but possible.


"toller" wrote in message
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My 2 story house is about 22 years old.

This morning I was on the first floor while my wife was washing up on the
second. The pipes were pretty noisy; more than I remember hearing before.

This concerns me because 2 years ago I replaced some ceiling tiles in the
basement and found that a 20' run of pipes had pulled free of all the pipe
hangers and was just shaking around. I reinstalled better hangers and it
seems fine, but it worries me about the plumbing quality in general.

I don't know much about plumbing, but presumably the pipes upstairs run
though holes in joist and can't move around much?

Should I be concerned about the noise?
Is there anything, other than ripping up the floors and walls, to be done
about this?

Thanks.