Vibration from leaking stopcock??

[cazzapop]

This is still going on....!! I hate my house!
It has now turned into what feels like a vibration under my feet, especially in the lounge and the bedroom which is above.
I don't know if I am fooling myself into maybe feeling what I am hearing? It sounds louder in the lounge which is at the front of the house but to be honest I hear it in every room. Even with the tv on. It is that low it sounds like the throb of a ferry or being in a submarine. Crazy I know!
Should I get a plumber out to check everything? Boiler, pipes, pump, thermostat, radiators, stop tap?
It is such a strange tale I loathe explaining it to anyone...

 

[Best]

Somebody with sound testing equipment might source it for you.
Not trying to me funny, but these ghost hunters have sensitive equipment

 

[Staffy85]

you should have kept to one thread and not started another one, keep all the information in one place,

so this noise is constantly on and doesnt just happen when you open taps/shower?
if you place a skrew driver on to the water main and place your ear on the handle you should be able to tell if the noise is from this or not, if it is from the water main , then as someone has mentioned shut off your stopcock and remove/disconnect your side of it so your plumbing is completley disconnected from the main, place the skrew driver on the stopcock/water main , any noise ? if so then its got nothing to do with your side/plumbing ,

 

[Dotty]

OP. Your duplicate thread has been deleted.

Don't spam the forum.

 

[cazzapop]

that feels a bit harsh, i'm not spamming the forum, only hoping to get answers or advice from different parties that originally replied.
thanks for suggestions.

 

[Dotty]

Harsh or not, that's your perception. You should have kept to one thread.

 

[Staffy85]

that feels a bit harsh, i'm not spamming the forum, only hoping to get answers or advice from different parties that originally replied.
thanks for suggestions.

you might want to post up on another forum if thats what your aim was, your get different answers depending on the information you give and you dont want different answers you want the right answer as to not waste your time , for anyone to diagnose a fault we/they need all the relevant information possible not bits here and there, have a plumber temporarily disconnect your water main to see if the noise still travels into your house..

 

[stevetheplumber]

it will be voices next

 

[Dotty]

you might want to post up on another forum if thats what your aim was, your get different answers depending on the information you give and you dont want different answers you want the right answer as to not waste your time , for anyone to diagnose a fault we/they need all the relevant information possible not bits here and there, have a plumber temporarily disconnect your water main to see if the noise still travels into your house..

I assume you mean a different forum to ukpf? And not a different sub forum on here.

 

[PhoenixServices]

Move house? Or maybe you have a secret nuclear bunker under your house.

 

[Staffy85]

I assume you mean a different forum to ukpf? And not a different sub forum on here.

you assume correct 🙂

 

[Rachiex]

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but wondering if the original poster might see this and be able to let me know if they found out what it was. This could have been me writing this, although I relate more to the feel of vibration under my floor. There is a hum, but it doesn't bother me like the feeling of 'movement' especially as it's waking me every night.

OP, if you see this would you reply and let me know if you got this sorted and what it was? Thanks

 

[ShaunCorbs]

hi Rachael

first things to check is non of your toilet ball / float valves are passing / dripping
you can check this by lifting the lid off and to look either at the water level or the ball valve, does the level rise at all or the ball valve drip etc

second do you have any cold water tanks in your loft / above the cylinder
normally if the ball valves are old they can pass at night causing the valve not to shut of

thrid thing when you open a tap and then close it fast again do you hear the noise?

 

[Rachiex]

Thanks, I have a thread of my own on this but I got locked out somehow so haven't been here for ages. I will answer you but then post a link here to my own thread, so this one doesn't get messed up...

The vibration happens mainly at night at random times but particularly between 11pm and 2.30am, then again any time from 4.30am to 8am. Been two years, hoping to move but this is dragging me down. I have 2 adjoining neighbours as I live in a first floor flat, one underneath and one next door (who has someone underneath them). Underneath have vacated and I'm assuming their water heater is off. Next door gets up at the crack of dawn, sometimes at 4.30 and often the vibration coincides with his morning activities and then calms down when he leaves (that said, it also happens at lower levels even when he's out, which makes me wonder if it's something to do with the water entering the flat beneath him or something like that).

Today I noticed that his outflow pipe from his bathroom is dripping, slowly, but steadily all day.

I'm assuming from my description that the ball valve in my toilet cistern is not the problem? Too much of a pattern to the vibration.

I don't know if there's a tank in the loft, how would you know (I'm a tenant but I have a feeling my landlady won't know this).

Nothing happens in relation to my taps, and according to the neighbours nothing is happening in their flats either, but it's a nightmare and very real. My brain wouldn't conjure up such an annoying hallucination to stop me sleeping, lol

 

[Rachiex]

Here's a link to my own thread, so as not to take over on here, sorry OP!

Vibration in floor...boiler/water heater?