What is causing this ticking noise from pipes in hot press

henke

Hi

Some irritating ticking sounds are coming from the pipes in my hot press and my head of my head is backed into the wall on the other side it's very distracting so need to get it sorted. The particularly annoying one is at 8 seconds in and the end again. Can someone with knowledge advise and if it's an easy/hard fix that I might someone to look at? Much appreciated.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LdwaRFoBta3uTMX87

meercat

henke wrote: »

Hi

Some irritating ticking sounds are coming from the pipes in my hot press and my head of my head is backed into the wall on the other side it's very distracting so need to get it sorted. The particularly annoying one is at 8 seconds in and the end again. Can someone with knowledge advise and if it's an easy/hard fix that I might someone to look at? Much appreciated.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/UhCcLFe

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Possibly pipes expanding/contracting

henke

Apologies. Updated with a different link which should hopefully work.


Yeah that is my feeling alright from Googling although hard to pinpoint exactly where it is coming from. It doesn't look like any pipe is tight against timber unless it's where it's going in the ceiling but even then there is a little space.

meercat

henke wrote: »

Apologies. Updated with a different link which should hopefully work.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LdwaRFoBta3uTMX87

Yeah that is my feeling alright from Googling although hard to pinpoint exactly where it is coming from. It doesn't look like any pipe is tight against timber unless it's where it's going in the ceiling but even then there is a little space.

Is your immersion switched on whilst this is happening. Sometimes the element is up against the cylinder coil causing a slight rattle

henke

meercat wrote: »

Is your immersion switched on whilst this is happening. Sometimes the element is up against the cylinder coil causing a slight rattle

No haven't used immersion since probably last summer as the heating provides sufficient hot water.

Hurrache

I've had similar issues, drives me demented. I think I traced it down to a particular radiator and switched it off and that seemed to have resolved it, but the sound radiates (excuse the pun) throughout the floor and I initially thought it originated from the hotpress.

henke

Hurrache wrote: »

I've had similar issues, drives me demented. I think I traced it down to a particular radiator and switched it off and that seemed to have resolved it, but the sound radiates (excuse the pun) throughout the floor and I initially thought it originated from the hotpress.

Interesting. Do you know what the fault of the radiator was or did you just leave it off permanently since?

Hurrache

I left it off for months only for me to turn it back on again last month, it was in the en-suite so my wife got fed up with it being cold so I gave in. Because it was a relatively minor radiator I could get away without getting it looked at to make sure that was the issue.

Yellow_Fern

Im no plumber, but if you find the loosest pipes try installing rubber lined steel clips. Might solve it.

Alun

Had this in my hot press too. Turned out it was down to pipes that were touching some wooden battens on the side wall that the shelves were sitting on, and also some of the shelf slats were touching the pipes too.

If it's a radiator causing the noise, it is often down to the little u-shaped plastic inserts that sit between the radiator itself and the bracket. If they're old, the plastic breaks down and crumbles and the radiator is then sitting directly on the metal bracket. When the radiator expands and contracts it doesn't run smoothly on the plastic but rubs against the metal. Easily solved, you can buy packs of replacement plastic inserts, just remove the radiator, remove the old cruddy inserts, put new ones in and replace the radiator, job done.

Something like this, although I think you should be able to get them here in a bricks and mortar shop too.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PACK-OF-12-RADIATOR-BRACKET-ANTI-VIBRATION-PLASTIC-INSERTS-/171216627429

Hurrache

Cheers Alun, I never knew such a thing existed.

I used to go around smacking them or pushing/pull them on their brackets, which occasionally, but momentarily, would resolve it. I had then put it down to an issue with the valves.

henke

Alun wrote: »

Had this in my hot press too. Turned out it was down to pipes that were touching some wooden battens on the side wall that the shelves were sitting on, and also some of the shelf slats were touching the pipes too.

If it's a radiator causing the noise, it is often down to the little u-shaped plastic inserts that sit between the radiator itself and the bracket. If they're old, the plastic breaks down and crumbles and the radiator is then sitting directly on the metal bracket. When the radiator expands and contracts it doesn't run smoothly on the plastic but rubs against the metal. Easily solved, you can buy packs of replacement plastic inserts, just remove the radiator, remove the old cruddy inserts, put new ones in and replace the radiator, job done.

Something like this, although I think you should be able to get them here in a bricks and mortar shop too.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PACK-OF-12-RADIATOR-BRACKET-ANTI-VIBRATION-PLASTIC-INSERTS-/171216627429

Thanks. My feeling is its not the radiator but seems to be coming from the hot press. I will inspect the battens again and see. Could it also be where the pipe travels through the ceiling or above? Although it looks like the opening isn't that tight on the pipe.

henke

Alun wrote: »

Had this in my hot press too. Turned out it was down to pipes that were touching some wooden battens on the side wall that the shelves were sitting on, and also some of the shelf slats were touching the pipes too.

If it's a radiator causing the noise, it is often down to the little u-shaped plastic inserts that sit between the radiator itself and the bracket. If they're old, the plastic breaks down and crumbles and the radiator is then sitting directly on the metal bracket. When the radiator expands and contracts it doesn't run smoothly on the plastic but rubs against the metal. Easily solved, you can buy packs of replacement plastic inserts, just remove the radiator, remove the old cruddy inserts, put new ones in and replace the radiator, job done.

Something like this, although I think you should be able to get them here in a bricks and mortar shop too.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PACK-OF-12-RADIATOR-BRACKET-ANTI-VIBRATION-PLASTIC-INSERTS-/171216627429

Upon further investigation it might be an issue like this but any solution if your pipe is in behind the hot water cylinder and very hard to get near the timber. Also, it may be where the same pipe is going under the floor board. I think I have narrowed it to this area.