There are threee distinct different sounds that rip me from my sleep and continue to keep me awake, The first is a buch of dinging/kocking noises. Then once the radiator gets up to steam its the usual loud hissing of the periodic steam release. Then its this loud gurgling bubbling noise that comes from the actual valve stem... PLEASE any help to quiet these radiators!!! Thanks :)
2007-02-20 22:50:54 · 5 answers · asked by Lucky 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Yuor description actually deals with three problems in your boilers steam system. Two are related to water or wet steam in your system and one involves air.
The dinging knocking sounds are coming from wet steam being brought into your steam main or condensate (water) trapped in the lines, usually due to poorly pitched piping for the latter or poorly configured header in the first.
The loud hissing you are hearing at the radiator is a faulty air vent. As the steam enters your boiler it has to displace the air inside. That silver thingie on the side making al the noise is an air vent. Once all the air leaves it is supposed to shut trapping the steam inside your radiator. Replace that and you should lose that noise.
And finally the gurgling bubbling at the valve.
As the steam inside your radiator cools it returns to its liquid form (condensate). In a one pipe steam system, steam enters and condensate exits from the same valve. for their to be enough room for this to happen, the valve must be ALL the way open. If not the steam traveling at velocity and the condensate returning will meet at the constriction point making that gurgling noise. This can also occur if the radiator does not have enough pitch. (water runs downhill)
Cheap fix for the pitch is to pick up an old checkers game at a thrift store then after lifting the end of the radiator away from the valve, slide a checker beneath the leg. These are much less intrusive and more esthetic than blocks of wood.
2007-02-20 23:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by functionalanarchist 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is too much air in your heating system. All you guys (the people who live there) have to do is "bleed" the system. Air always travels up, and gets caught in the highest parts of your radiatior. If you open up the valve at the bottom of the radiatior (away from the water in side) and drain water until you have forced all the air out, your radiator will stop knocking. And, incidentally, your radiators will heat better.
2007-02-20 23:07:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried "white noise" such as a fan to mask the other noise? Soft music? Or get someone to look at the radiators to see if something is wrong with them?
2007-02-20 22:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by Mary G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-29 10:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by husted 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had the knocking sound here in my building, It's got 32 apts and 3 floors. They had to call a plumber who specializes in steam heat systems, but he did solve it. hmm.
2007-02-20 22:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋