House is humming, literally
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Comments (12)My well pump makes a huge racket when it kicks on. When the icemaker in the fridge refills with water, you can hear the water run for a few seconds, then stop. I have central AC on the furnace that has a condensate pump which comes on whenever the water level lifts the float enough, and pumps the water through a small hose to the outside of the house. I also have a dehumidifier in the basement that is piped to the AC condensate pump so it empties itself. Toilets that are leaking water, either past the "flapper" in the bottom of the tank will refill when the level drops low enough to lower the float and activate the fill valve. Water hammer noise is common on toilet fill valves, so this could be what you're hearing. Replacing the flapper is easy and inexpensive, just turn off the water to the toilet tank (there should be a shutoff underneath) and flush to drain the tank. The flapper is often a rubber thingy that is stuck onto little hooks on the sides of the overflow pipe. Just unhook it and take it to the hardware store for a replacement. Other types might be a ball shaped thing stuck onto the bottom of a stiff vertical wire. It probably unscrews. If you determine with the food coloring that the water in the tank is leaking into the bowl, and you encounter something different in your tank setup, a description of what you see in there would help. Jo...See MorePipe replacement ) hum) PRV tightening) no hum, ok?
Comments (0)A few days ago, I posted re replacing old polybutylene from meter to house. Black pipe was used as a replacement. I have since discovered that the new pipe is slightly more than 1/2" I.D. and not quite 5/8" and certainly not 3/4", which is the rest of the house interior. At some point, we noticed loud humming whenever a faucet was turned on. Hot or cold did not matter, but using both at full open eliminated the noise, as did reducing it to a very low flow (almost trickle). I traced the noise back to the unfinished room where the water enters the house and the PRV is installed. The PRV is new along with the black pipe. The hum was intensely loud and certainly originating here, so I tried turning the screw on the PRV. Tightening it (I think tightening; this was a clockwise turn when viewed from below, PRV mounted overhead with screw side down) has all but completely eliminated the noise. I know the pressure at the hose bib should be between 40 & 70 psi, but could not find my gauge this late at night; not sure if it got lost during the house move. I will certainly buy one tomorrow and check, but am wondering if tightening (does this mean I increased pressure) could be problematic? I got to thinking, if the black pipe is less than 3/4" which then couples to 3/4", what does this mean to the health of the system? Could this be the root cause of the hum? Is the smaller size a problem in any way?...See MoreHumming sound from electric cable attached to house
Comments (24)I'm experiencing this right now. At 3am. It sounds like a diesel engine running outside. We live at the end of the power line in the country with no close neighbor. I've listened carefully at the breaker box, outside near the mast, and first floor (living room) and the basement, but the noise is only prevalent (and quite loud) in the bedroom. The line attaches to the house nearly dead center in our head board but up at the height of the ceiling. I've used Physics Toolbox app and the sound is 52-62Hz so electrical seems plausible. It's also cyclic, fading in and out in volume from nearly gone to extremely irritating. We have a digital power meter, and there is a transformer on our power pole at the road. There's a light breeze outside, temp is 16F, and there's freezing fog on the power line but we also hear this sound in more normal weather. I've heard conductors vibrate in conduit at work under large surges, but according to my Sense monitor we're only pulling about 1200 watts right now for a dozen devices and the changes in sound don't correlate to changes in load or devices cycling on and off. I feel it must be electromagnetic, wind on the power line, or vibration coming down the power line from somewhere else like the transformer....See MoreA Nonymous
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