We have recently moved into a 10 year old house. The pipes in the
floor boards upstairs click for about an hour after the heating / hot
water has been turned off. The pipe run to and from the boiler which
is directly under the main bedroom, hence the cliking pipes are really
annoying at night. Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop
it? I guess I will have to get the floor boards up but I dont want to
do that unless there is a viable solution. Grateful for any advice!

nigel wrote:
We have recently moved into a 10 year old house. The pipes in the
floor boards upstairs click for about an hour after the heating / hot
water has been turned off. The pipe run to and from the boiler which
is directly under the main bedroom, hence the cliking pipes are really
annoying at night. Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop
it? I guess I will have to get the floor boards up but I dont want to
do that unless there is a viable solution. Grateful for any advice!

I presume this is a thermal exapansion/contraction effect. A simple
fix might be to run the CH system with a lower boiler temperature (the
boiler stat, not the room stat). The rads will be cooler of course,
but it might still be enough to heat the house plus the clicking time
should be reduced becuase there is less change in the pipe length due
to the expansion.

Robert

On 7 Nov 2006 08:27:25 -0800 someone who may be "nigel"
wrote this:-

We have recently moved into a 10 year old house. The pipes in the
floor boards upstairs click for about an hour after the heating / hot
water has been turned off. The pipe run to and from the boiler which
is directly under the main bedroom, hence the cliking pipes are really
annoying at night. Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop
it? I guess I will have to get the floor boards up but I dont want to
do that unless there is a viable solution. Grateful for any advice!

Small bits of carpet, placed under the pipes so they slide more
easily. The clicking is caused by the pipes jerking slightly as they
contract.


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"nigel" wrote in message
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We have recently moved into a 10 year old house. The pipes in the
floor boards upstairs click for about an hour after the heating / hot
water has been turned off. The pipe run to and from the boiler which
is directly under the main bedroom, hence the cliking pipes are really
annoying at night. Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop
it? I guess I will have to get the floor boards up but I dont want to
do that unless there is a viable solution. Grateful for any advice!


In our house we had copper pipes running in notches on the top of joists for
a long run and lots of annoying clicking.

I replaced the pipes with Hep2O (plastic). Not a click since.

David

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Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop it?

Bit of felt under where each pipe bears on the joist.

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Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

thanks!
Guy King wrote:
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from "nigel" contains these words:

Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop it?

Bit of felt under where each pipe bears on the joist.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

cheers for the advice
vortex2 wrote:
"nigel" wrote in message
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We have recently moved into a 10 year old house. The pipes in the
floor boards upstairs click for about an hour after the heating / hot
water has been turned off. The pipe run to and from the boiler which
is directly under the main bedroom, hence the cliking pipes are really
annoying at night. Can anyone please give me any ideas on how to stop
it? I guess I will have to get the floor boards up but I dont want to
do that unless there is a viable solution. Grateful for any advice!


In our house we had copper pipes running in notches on the top of joists for
a long run and lots of annoying clicking.

I replaced the pipes with Hep2O (plastic). Not a click since.

David