Help with clanging pipe

[BYP]

It you do have to go under the floor as its chip board there is only one safe way of doing it. Dont bother with saws circular or jig. Get a claw hammer and bash your way in with a small hole Then locate pipe and carefully open a space around it back to the joists, fix pipe and then slot in new piece of chippy board cut to size. If there is a gap around edge make up some cocky (car body filler) and trowel into gap. easy no split pipes and quite theraputic throw scrap on fire all done

A good tip I have found in the past is setting your depth gage to roughly half the thickness of the boards then prising the boards up with a long flat headed screwdriver and swan bar. Won’t work on thick boards though. A lot of the time I just use a circular saw and multi tool to cut floorboards and haven’t gone though anything yet, just remember to take your time and try and workout where pipes could be under there.

 

[richie51]

Thanks for all the replies. A new member (Chewit) said 6 rads may not be enough to dissipate heat. This got me thinking. I've never liked heat in the bedroom. I find a cooler bedroom easier to sleep, so I have always kept the bedroom rads turned off most of the time. This didn't cause problems in my last 2 homes,both houses. I moved into a 2 bed bungalow last year and only have 6 rads. I haven't started putting the central heating on yet,but last night I turned the trv's up from 0 to about 3. I only heard a very faint sound last night. Such a difference to the loud clanging I had been hearing. Is it best not to lower any rads to 0. I'm thinking maybe the pressure in the pipes met a dead end in the bedrooms and caused the loud clanging I was hearing. I'm going to leave the tvr's about halfway up from now on and hopefully this will keep dissipating any pressure in the pipes. Has anyone heard of this problem before?Thanks.

 

[Rob Foster]

Thanks for all the replies. A new member (Chewit) said 6 rads may not be enough to dissipate heat. This got me thinking. I've never liked heat in the bedroom. I find a cooler bedroom easier to sleep, so I have always kept the bedroom rads turned off most of the time. This didn't cause problems in my last 2 homes,both houses. I moved into a 2 bed bungalow last year and only have 6 rads. I haven't started putting the central heating on yet,but last night I turned the trv's up from 0 to about 3. I only heard a very faint sound last night. Such a difference to the loud clanging I had been hearing. Is it best not to lower any rads to 0. I'm thinking maybe the pressure in the pipes met a dead end in the bedrooms and caused the loud clanging I was hearing. I'm going to leave the tvr's about halfway up from now on and hopefully this will keep dissipating any pressure in the pipes. Has anyone heard of this problem before?Thanks.

well done chewit

 

[richie51]

Things are no better after all. I turned the fire on last night for the first time since the spring which I turned off about 10pm. I later ran a sinkful of hot water about 11pm. 4am I was woken by loud clanging! I've no idea what's causing it. I did ask a heating engineer who doubted it was anything to do with pipework as I'm hearing it hours later and nothing is turned on during the night. He said he would call round but there is a call out charge and he advised identifying where the problem is first to save time wasting. I've no idea what it is? Where do I even start? I also live alone in a detached bungalow so it's not neighbours waking me. I've just read about pressure hammer. Could it be this? I'll try turning the water supply off and draining all outlets which I read can resettle the system,but as I'm hearing all this loud noise some 5 hours after I've done anything, I can't understand it. I may never get to the bottom of this. Has anyone heard of a similar problem and does anyone have any advice? Many thanks.