Best Practice - Running Pipes through Dot and Dab Plasterboard

[TBServices]

When you say cover just fill with deep fill plaster then skim over?

Ant

Yeah, the felt should accommodate any expansion.

 

[happyflyer]

Happyflyer its not plastic its copper pipe......theres something going wierd with this one.....def something to do with how the plaster dot and dab is retaining the pipework. I'm guessing becuse it retains it in area's and doesn't in others it makes the sound. I bet I could record it....if you really want to hear it!

Ant

Sorry Ant,

I miss read that, if it is your right, but there is another point which you may have missed the plasterboard is acting like a drum, a sounding board even had it been installed as it should have been boxed in on the surface and clipped it would still tick, trapped behind the PB and stuck in places with dabs you have no chance of keeping it quiet, I would be pulling it out of there and dare I say this, this is one for plastic, hell that left a taste in my mouth like putting my tongue on a 9 volt battery, make a few of you very very happy.


Tony

 

[lame plumber]

Sorry Ant,

I miss read that, if it is your right, but there is another point which you may have missed the plasterboard is acting like a drum, a sounding board even had it been installed as it should have been boxed in on the surface and clipped it would still tick, trapped behind the PB and stuck in places with dabs you have no chance of keeping it quiet, I would be pulling it out of there and dare I say this, this is one for plastic, hell that left a taste in my mouth like putting my tongue on a 9 volt battery, make a few of you very very happy.


Tony

i'd agree that plasterboard can act like a drum on stud work but on dot n dab it could not have that effect at all, but the issue this guy is having has never occurred on any dot n dab with pipe set behind it Ive installed. the only thing i can think of is that the copper is pushing against something on an elbow where it cant expand and this is ticking away. To have pulled a wall apart for some ticking is a first and seriously ocd.

 

[happyflyer]

i'd agree that plasterboard can act like a drum on stud work but on dot n dab it could not have that effect at all, but the issue this guy is having has never occurred on any dot n dab with pipe set behind it Ive installed. the only thing i can think of is that the copper is pushing against something on an elbow where it cant expand and this is ticking away. To have pulled a wall apart for some ticking is a first and seriously ocd.

Might be ticking from further back that is resonating, I still think that the hollow gap in the back of the PB might amplify the sounds, you need to be there to make an assessment, its all guess work third forth and filth hand

Tony

 

[Keefy]

To have pulled a wall apart for some ticking is a first and seriously ocd.

I hope he didn't pull a clock off the wall before he started hacking away.

 

[Dotty]

Wouldn't be the first time someone's run around looking for a leak or trying to cure pipe noises because of a clock ticking!

 

[Keefy]

Wouldn't be the first time someone's run around looking for a leak or trying to cure pipe noises because of a clock ticking!

Is that an admission?

 

[lame plumber]

most people in ireland near the borders are used to listening out for ticking, its what kept them alive most of the time🙂

 

[Dotty]

most people in ireland near the borders are used to listening out for ticking, its what kept them alive most of the time🙂

Still do. Second nature checking under the van now.

 

[lame plumber]

Still do. Second nature checking under the van now.

nice to know your popular in the provinces🙂