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Apartment pump

  • 06-12-2018 11:58pm
    #1
    redarmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks, just looking for a bit of help/info if possible, live in apartment, water pump keeps makeing a humming noise every mins or so, Have checked all taps are tight and no leaks that i can see in toilet cistern,?? can put up with it during day but annoying during night, thanks for any help.


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  • #2
    Mariomaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Mariomaker


    open your water tank and check the float on the top. If theres water in it or damaged the float will cuase water to to pump into the tank hence the noise. Im 75% sure thats the problem


  • #3
    redarmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭redarmy


    Mariomaker wrote: »
    open your water tank and check the float on the top. If theres water in it or damaged the float will cuase water to to pump into the tank hence the noise. Im 75% sure thats the problem
    How do i open water tank?:o


  • #4
    Mariomaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Mariomaker


    There should be a lid on the top?


  • #5
    redarmy
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    Mariomaker wrote: »
    There should be a lid on the top?
    There is no lid on top, its just a big copper tank


  • #6
    rodhan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭rodhan


    It sounds like the exact problem we had in our apartment before. I was worried that it was a leak under the floor somewhere because it just got worse and worse over the years. Eventually I asked a plumber and it turned out to be just a small tear in a part of the water pump that he was able to repair really quickly. It was a big relief because I was prepared for the worst! The plumber said that it was a really common problem in apartment pumps.

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  • #7
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Mariomaker wrote: »
    open your water tank and check the float on the top. If theres water in it or damaged the float will cuase water to to pump into the tank hence the noise. Im 75% sure thats the problem

    You're totally off the mark.
    The ballcock filling valve in the top of a combined hot / cold water cylinder, typical of apartments, has absolutely no connection with the water pressure boosting pump issue as described.

    redarmy wrote: »
    Hi folks, just looking for a bit of help/info if possible, live in apartment, water pump keeps makeing a humming noise every mins or so, Have checked all taps are tight and no leaks that i can see in toilet cistern,?? can put up with it during day but annoying during night, thanks for any help.

    It is either the expansion vessel on the pump, the non return valves on the pump, a leak on pump.
    Turn off the valves on the Outlet Pipework from the pump, if the noise continues, then its the pump, if it stops, then its elsewhere.


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