Low rumble and fog horn sound how to#

It's not pulsating, like a pulse, it's got no definite pattern, but it is ever happening.

It turns on, goes steadily for about 5-20 seconds then goes away for a bit, then returns again.

I don't now how you would classify it, it is irregular. Of course, it is tinnitus at last I realize. It sounds like a foghorn about 20 miles away, possibly underground, but only my left ear hears it. Thanks I’m going to check the other toilet and the tank upstairs as well and hopefully I can find where it’s actually coming from.For a number of years I have been aware of a very low intermittent hum that I thought was coming from some nearby power plant or electrical transformer or something. The increased pressure elsewhere does sound like the right thing rather than it being this particular ball valve. I replaced the ballvalve diaphragm but when examining it, it looks fine there wasn’t any tears in the rubber. Yes you’re right, when the ballvalve in the toilet is up so no water is flowing into the tank of the toilet then noise is happening (the noise isn’t constant but randomly appears) so to stop it I just keep flushing the toilet and the one downstairs and open the bathroom tap as well and somehow it disappears but also just to check if it might be this toilet or the one downstairs I pushed the ball down and water was coming into the tank and sound gone. When you find the guilty valve, give it a good telling off.Ĭlick to expand.Hi Allsorts, appreciate the reply, thank you! Get the noise going and then visit each one, pulling their balls up firmly a plumbing 'wedgie' as it were. To trace it, make a list of every ballvalve in your house - tanks in the loft (most likely culprit) and any other toilets, and also if you have a garden tap outside that hasn't been tightly shut off. So when you shut off that cistern ballcock again, the increased water pressure in the pipes is forcing another (faulty) ballvalve open a tiny amount somewhere, and that's where the noise is coming from. Ie, the valve that's allowing this trickle - and is making a trumpet in the process - should really be 'off', but is instead allowing this trickle through when the water pressure is high enough. You also say that when you press down that ballvalve to make it flow the noise stops, but when you release it to shut the cistern flow off again the noise often returns? I think what's happening there is that when you open that cistern valve the water pressure in your pipes fall away so the actual culprit valve that's making the noise has the water pressure removed from it, so it stops moaning. (Which 'diaphragm' did you replace - the ballcock's or the flusher's?) So if you have fully shut off that cistern ballvalve by pulling up on it so that no water is coming out and the noise is still there - which you say it is - then it isn't that ballvalve that's at fault. Trying to think this through logically, as long as the noise is present there is a tiny bit of water flowing through whatever is making it no trickle, no noise. After I changed the valve and while the noise was happening, I pushed down the ball float so water runs into the cistern and noise goes but as soon as I lift the float to stop the water, the noise comes back again.ĭoes anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate all the advice I can get. It’s not all the time but randomly appears throughout the day so to stop it I flush the toilet a few times, open the tap in the bathroom and eventually it stops. I’ve replaced the diaphragm valve in the toilet but the noise still came back. I read lots that usually the noise happens when people flush their toilet however I get the noise once the water has filled. I have to constantly keep flushing the toilets or open cold water tap in the sink for the noise to go.

Recently In the house I’ve been hearing loud foghorn type of noise coming from the cold water pipes and feel a vibration. Before I start I’m not a plumber or anything like that so I would be very grateful for any help.

Low rumble and fog horn sound how to#

I could really do with some advice right now on how to fix my issue.