Need a water hammer arrestor? I have a cheaper, easier option?

Learn if a water hammer arrestor will solve that...... Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

That shuddering noise in your pipes, every time you turn on a tap, is doing more than just grating your nerves.

It's ripping your plumbing system apart.

Today your going to find out

1. What causes that banging.

2. Discover if a water hammer arrestor is the best solution to your problem.

We'll offer an alternate solution that will cost next to nothing. And with a bit of guidance from me, the job will take about 15 minutes.

Before we jump straight to the solution you need to understand the cause and what a water hammer arrestor does.

This will help you decide, which of our two solutions will work for you.

So pour yourself a cuppa, put your feet up. and I'll give ya the run down on what's causing that dreaded noise.

Got to break free.

The Cause.

What's happening is water is rushing past an object that begins vibrating.

This object, can be the washer on a tap. Washer on a ballcock/float valve or closing flap on a gate valve.

As the water rushes over the washer, it starts vibrating.This in turn, causes you tap washer to start jumping up and down.Your tap starts turning off then on, 100 times a second.

The water stops then starts, over and over, bashing into every change of direction you have in your plumbing system.

Depending on how well your pipes are clipped, determines the kind of noise you hear.

(Pipes that have little or no clipping, don't need any thing to trigger the water hammer, but this is usually quite rare.)

Clipping

Instead of a continued banging while a tap is run, you experience nothing until you turn your tap off.

In this instance you will hear one big thud somethimes followed by a shudder of pipe work. (lasts 1 or 2 seconds.)

Decision time: Determine which of the following, best decribes your problem.

If your sound is a continual banging only when 1 paticular tap is used then try my cheap and easy solution

If the water hammer is only when your roof tank is filling click here.

For a water hammer that occurs only after tap is turned off continue learning.

To solve the clipping problem try this.

Find out wether your pipes run in your ceiling or underneath your floorboard.

Purchase some pipe clips (very tight fitting).If need be, measure the diameter of the pipe, by holding your tape measure above the pipe and looking down on it.

Note down if pipes are copper, galvinised or plastic.

Better still, if you have a digital camera, take a photo to your plumbing supplier.

If the clips are not really tight you can pack with small bits of material.

Clip at about 1m/3ft intervals.

The hard part about this is, the main culprit can be in a wall.

To solve this......

Water Hammer arrestor

I like to visualise it, as someone jumping off their house onto concrete, compared to jumping onto a trampoline.

The concrete is hard, unforgiving and jarring.While the trampoline is soft, cushioning and best of all, quiet.

Where to install?

Tee into a line, screwing the water hammer arrestor as close to the tee as possible. To learn more. Join me from water hammer arrestor to plumbing-troubleshooting.com