Neighbours groaning toilet

polydactyl

So I live in an apartment block and for the last 5 months whenever a neighbour flushes their toilet it groans really loudly for up to a minute. When they go during the night it can even wake us up.

We had the same issue ourselves 2 years ago. Got plumber out who changed a valve that was too small??nothing too bad just annoying. Anyway fixed rapidly. We know a few of our neighbours could hear it when it was our issue so we can't pin the problem apartment down.

We have tried the mgt company who sent out letters to no avail and have put up notices in the block to no avail.

My question now is the noise is getting louder longer and there is a new "clank" too. Is it highly likely that this could affect our plumbing, flooding issues etc if they don't fix it? Don't want to go away for a few days and return to disaster!

Thanks for any opinions.

dpofloinn

It will have no affect on your plumbing because it is in his appartment not yours.It is also 99.999% unlikey to cause a flood in your appartment.What most likely will happen is in the course of time is your neighbour wont be able to flush the toilet as their is probably a restriction in the orifice of the reducer (possibly the reducer in place is the wrong one) which is restricting the flow of water in causing a whine

endacl

Have you considered knocking on your neighbour's door, mentioning you heard the noise, and without complaining about it say something like 'it must be driving you nuts at night. Here's a simple fix that worked for me'.

Billy Bunting

Knock on their door and ask them if they have an isolation valve (small fitting on inlet with slot for screwdriver to turn off water) on the loo if they have just reduce the flow until the noise has gone. Two minutes max!

http://www.screwfix.com/p/15mm-isolating-valve-pack-of-2/65251

polydactyl

Thanks everyone. Thanks for the reassurance too. We did try one set of neighbours but it was not their toilet and the others keep weird hours so the few times we tried they were not home. Thanks for the link too in case we do get to talk to them!