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timmmay

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#205572 18-Nov-2016 08:12
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From my bathroom I can hear this weird noise (soundcloud link, few seconds of audio) from my bathroom sometimes when the wind blows. It can happen every 5 seconds then not happen for 5 minutes, or it can happen every ten seconds for minutes. It's not regular. My wife doesn't notice it. Anyone care to guess what it is?

 

Here's what I know:

 

  • I hear the noise intermittently from my bathroom when the wind blows - there's no regularity to it
  • I can feel a short, sharp vibration (ie a bang) through my feet when I hear the noise
  • You can't hear the noise when you're sitting outside the bathroom in the wind
  • It's been happening for months but seems to be getting a bit louder
  • I've been under the bathroom and I can't see anything loose. I put a bit of padding between two pipes that were close together
  • It could be something hitting something else, or something becoming unbalanced
  • It's a hollow sounding "bong / bung" type nose
  • House is 100 years old (ish), with a new bathroom
  • (Update) I haven't observed any correlation with water use, either in the bathroom or the rest of the house

Any ideas what it could be?

 

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  #2449863 30-Mar-2020 08:40
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Ok, so after about five years of an annoying banging sound, I think I've solved it!

 

I put a bracket on the wall as suggested. My wife was amazed that  1) I had a suitable bracket in the shed and 2) I could find it in there! It helped a little, so I went under the house and tried to tie up the pipe. That didn't work well, I'd need metal straps.

 

I was in a slightly different area, and the wind was a bit different. I noticed that something was moving across the other side of the house where the sewer pipe exited the house. Getting a bit closer I found that a piece of fibre board around the sewer pipe wasn't fixed properly. When the wind blew it was hitting the pipe and a concrete pile, then when the wind died down it was going back to hit the wood on the other side. I found a bit of soft foam material under the house, crawled into a very narrow area and stuffed it in, then crawled out backwards. That's an ok temporary fix - one day when we replace the deck we'll have to fix it properly. If it starts up again I'll gladly pay a tradesman a couple of hundred dollars to go in that really quite horrible spot.

 

So that was it - fibre board hitting concrete, then fibre board hitting wood, which explained the two part clanging sound. The sound was being transmitted along the metal sewer pipe for many meters, and we could hear / feel it most clearly when using the toilet.


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