Noisy TRV (was Noisy Radiator)

Oct 14, 2014 7 Replies

As this is a slightly different topic, I thought I'd start a new thread.



After me thinking that the radiator was noisy, but subsequently found that by turning the trv slightly, the noise or vibration stops.



Now, I have found that just by lightly squeezing? the body of the trv the noise/vibration stops. Also when doing this I could here a slight hissing noise either in the pipe or trv, and when a slightly turned the trv control, both the noise or vibration, and the slight hissing stopped.



I also found that the slight hissing sound changed in sound level as I turned the trv control, and the more I turned it the sound decreased to a stop.Conversely the more I turned the trv control the other way, the hissing sound became more pronounced or louder.


Do you mean the head (plastic) rather than the body (metal)?

As you gradually close the valve, the water is forced through a smaller hole, so the sound will change.

Yes,I do mean the head, not the body.

Bob H wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

The slightest movement at the cut-off stage will make a difference. Water is possibly being forced through a gap of a few thousands of an inch.

I get this occasionally in a pressurised system and it has always been cured by bleeding the offending radiator.

In message , DerbyBorn writes

Or it might just be that holding/squeezing the head is damping the sound?

Our studio has a radiator like that, we call it hissing sid. My guess is that its turbulance in the hot water squeezing by the valve or tap or whatever is adjustable. It needs a very delicate touch to get it just right! Brian

"Brian Gaff" wrote in news:m1jgh4$spe$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Of course - the noise is caused by it beginning to close - or open so in a way it is something that should not be avoided by turning it up or down.

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