Are ticking central heating pipes a problem? I imagine eventually they will wear through with the continous movement, or am I just paranoid?
Bob
Ticking pipes
Dec 08, 2003
4 Replies
In about 300 years probably.
Its just movement against (typically) a piece of wood and or a pipe clamp. better practice is to install felt wrappers where pipes are clamped, to allow a little give.
Paranoid, I would suspect. Our CH has been ticking (and clanking) away for over 30 years...
I know it is movement, that's why I imagine the horror story of it sawing through the pipes... I was thinking of wrapping all the pipes to get rid of the annoyance factor alone.
At the last place I worked, the plumber put a heating pipe through a hole he drilled in a breeze block. I always thought that would get cut through.
Bob
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