....Which is going to be a pain, and I am hopefully moving in a few weeks.
I live in a ground floor flat, and it has a huge void under the floor. For the last few weeks I have heard a noise in the kitchen which sounds like water running through the pipes. Got no loss of water pressure, no sign of leakage, but it's me, as if I turn the stop c*ck off it stops.
Any ideas to any possible cause ??
Ta.
Why not move then?
If you disturb the flooring trying to resolve this issue then a buyers surveyor might have cause to question why the floorboards have been taken up.
You can presumably answer honestly about not knowing about a leak under the floorboards. "Honest guv, I tend to have my stereo turned up a bit when I'm at home".
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I had that recently, and it was a leak in the old lead pipe. You don't day if the flat is new or old, but I would look at the lead (if you have any!) first.
If the void is "huge" then what to do is find the joists and remove enough of the boards ,either complete or enough to get yourself down there to have a look . If you are selling the flat then any surveyor worth his salt is going to hear the noise and ask questions . Anyway you might not even move so you will still need to find out what is causing it . Stuart
You have a leak, somewhere after the stop c*ck. Always assuming nothing (tanks, cisterns etc) are not filling...
The fact that the noise is coming from under the floor doesn't necessarily mean that the *leak* is under the floor - if it just sounds like water flowing through a pipe.
Does the rising main come through the under-floor space before getting to the stoptap? Are there any pipes fed from *above* the stoptap which go back down below the floor?
If the answers are "yes" and *no" respectively, you are hearing water flowing up the rising main on its way to a leak somewhere above floor level - such as a burst pipe feeding an outside tap.
"Nervous O'Toole" wrote | ....Which is going to be a pain, and I am hopefully moving in a | few weeks. I live in a ground floor flat, and it has a huge void | under the floor. For the last few weeks I have heard a noise in | the kitchen which sounds like water running through the pipes.
As Set Square suggests, it may be water running through the pipes and running out elsewhere. Other than dripping taps check ball valves in WC and cold water tanks if you have them - it may be the WC cistern is continuously filling, but never gets to overflow level because it's flushed regularly.
Rather than ripping up floors it may be a lot easier to lift a corner of carpet in each room, drill a half-inch hole (which probably won't even need to be filled afterwards if carpet is going over) and look down using a borescope (from big hire shops), to see where the pipes run and if there are any signs of puddles.
Owain
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