Apr 11
Can someone tell me how to drown out the noise from knocking pipes. Everytime my neighbor or I turn on the hot water, the pipes began to knock and takes hours to stop. It’s right behind my bedroom wall. Moving out is not an option. I can’t afford to. The complex put in insulation foam but it didn’t help at all.
get a plumber to put in an expansion tank and water hammer arresters.
Apr 8
Can someone tell me how to drown out the noise from knocking pipes. Everytime my neighbor or I turn on the hot water, the pipes began to knock and takes hours to stop. It’s right behind my bedroom wall. Moving out is not an option. I can’t afford to. The complex put in insulation foam but it didn’t help at all.
Nichole,
Here’s your problem: You have calcium/lime build-up inside your water heater. The problem is not from not having the pipes strapped properly.
There are three possible remedies to this problem:
1) Drain the water heater at the drain valve at the bottom of the heater. Connect a garden hose to the valve and allow the water and calcium deposits to drain from the tank. This is the easiest and cheapest way to solve the problem.
2) Replace the water heater. This may be a wise choice if the heater is old and past its life expectancy.
3) Install a water softener. Soft water will eventually dissolve away the lime deposits, but this choice will be more expensive and take a few months before showing any results.
Mar 12
so for physics class weh have to make a roller coaster. it has to actually work when u put a marble thru it. mine is a meter by a meter by a meter, amde out of wooden dowls holdin up the track. the track is made out of Foam Pipe Insulation, it’s greay. maybe and inch in diameter cut in half. it mostly works, but it’s really unstable and a lot of the time random problems keep popping up, like the marble suddenly falls off or the loop won’t work. it’s due in 4 DAYS and i have run out of ideas to make it work. this is a HUGE part of my grade pleas and i deas owuld be great!!!!
Make sure there is support from the sides and bottom. Don’t make these long extended curves when it’s only supported at both ends. Finding a good initial height for speed will tell you how to make your curves and different obstacles. Just keep experimenting little by little to not mess the whole thing up.
Good luck.
