Do electric kettles get noiser as they age ?

mrtom · 13-11-2015 3:32pm #1

colm_mcm · 13-11-2015 8:47pm

i reckon they do. ours has def gotten louder with age. i reckon it's limescale. makes a popping noise.
back in the day kettles were plastic and quieter.

my3cents · 14-11-2015 10:34am

No problem with ours unless we use bottled water in it? Sometimes our mains water gets really foul, greenish and stinking of chlorine so we use bottled water for making tea (Lidl's cheapest water) and the noise the kettle makes is like a barrel of monkeys being swashed by an iceberg! Back to tap water and there's hardly any noise at all.

14-11-2015 9:21pm

my3cents wrote: »

and the noise the kettle makes is like a barrel of monkeys being swashed by an iceberg!

I'm finding it hard to imagine what that sounds like :P but mine is more like a freight train crawling through the station. Some bottled water appears to be harder than the hardest tap water, it's just filtered better.

As for getting noisier, we did find that the last kettle got noisier as it aged, the missus got so fed up that she changed it.

my3cents · 14-11-2015 11:06pm

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I'm finding it hard to imagine what that sounds like :P

Imagine a low sounding ooooook that goes up a few octaves and ends up as a sort of high pitched scraping sound.

Do electric kettles get noiser as they age ?

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