Running water behind kitchen sink.

DarkBlonde

Hi maybe someone can help. For the past few months I have noticed the sound of running water in the pipes behind the kitchen sink. I can also hear this sound from the upstairs back bedroom. I live in the house 3 years and it was new when I moved in. It is on an estate. I turned off the water at the mains but the sound is still there. Don't know if it is there all the time but it is alot. Even when I haven't used water i.e. in the middle of the night.

Any suggestions as to what it is will be greatly appreciated.

Billy Bunting

Check if your water tank in the loft is filling constantly.

DarkBlonde

Billy Bunting wrote: »

Check if your water tank in the loft is filling constantly.

No it's not. Only hear that filling after I have ran water.

Billy Bunting

when you turned off the mains was that in the house or out at the road ??

if in the house try turning off at the road/outside, is the noise still there ??

DarkBlonde

It was in the house that I turned it off. I don't know where to access it outside the house. What do you reckon it could be?

danjo-xx

You say 'running' water, not dripping water, which would suggest water in the rising main. I think Billy was checking that your stopcock under the sink maybe be a bit faulty and not turning off the water completely.

I would do as Billy suggest and turn off the water at the stopcock outside your house and see if the noise is still there.

Billy Bunting

One of the other lads may have another theory but It sounds like a leak on the mains before it gets to the internal stopcock, if you could turn it off at the road/outside and the noise stopped that would verify it. The hissing noise from a mains water leak does tend to travel along the pipe.

sullzz

Id do what billy said , it does sound like a leak between your outside stopcock and your inside stopcock , first try turning off your inside stopcock and turn on your cold tap at the kitchen sink to make sure the stopcock is not passing .
Your outside stopcock should be located on the footpath outside your house you might need a water key to turn this stopcock off if its not one of the new type .
Try turning this off and see if the noise stoppes .
I would have thought that you would of seen a sign of water by now if you have solid concrete floors downstairs , perhaps you have raised floors .

DarkBlonde

Thanks for all the replies. I will check outside later on. Is it my responsibility if the leak is coming from outside?

The sound is like a steady stream of water flowing through pipe. I am the only one who has noticed it as the house needs to be silent to hear it.

When we first moved in and the men from the council's water department were checking all the water meters they noticed our reading was very high so they checked it out. Found a leak in a pipe in the back garden and they dug up the path to fix it. I wonder would it be something like that again.

Also during the summer the builders sent back a guy to dig up pipes out on the path outside some houses I wonder would they have caused it. I can't really remember if the sound is there since then.

I don't think the floors are raised.

Billy Bunting

If you have a water meter you will find the means to turn off there.

Normally it is your responcability from the meter, but if you had them repair pipes in your back garden in the past then it maybe the water boards problem.

The leak is more likely outside the property if its not showing inside.

Good luck.