How to prevent Loud knocks and Bangs from Washing Machine (Water Hammer) W/Amazon Product Link

what is up guys you're probably thinking why the hell is josh showing me his washing machines and his dryer well i'll show you why i know this is predominantly a automotive channel but this kind of falls into the mechanical side of things if you will and i know a lot of you are home owners or will be home owners so the problem i was having with the water feed and the water or sorry just the water feed is every time the water would shut off in the washer the valve would close it would send all the water pressure back into the pipes so before oops sorry so before this contraption wasn't there it was just screwed right into the into here so this hose was just screwed right into here and we would be pretty much anywhere in the house and you would hear a loud knocking sound loud bang bang every time the valves in the washer would close because it's done taking water in it shuts the valves well these are pressurized so the pressure's got to go somewhere so where does the pressure go it goes back into the pipes and you know makes them make loud noises because they're banging against mounts walls other pipes in here and it's not the greatest for your um pressurized water lines in your house which is you know i wanted to prevent all of that from happening and i don't ever want to hear a big bang sound while the washer and dryer are going so i bought these two things these are called um water hammer arresters so the the term for what i would just explain to you is water hammer when the water shuts off or sorry when the valve shut the water pressure has to go back and it basically hammers against the pipes and everything else the pipes are attached to so it's called water hammer these two things are called water hammer arresters and what they are is as the pressure or as the as the valve shuts in the washer the pressure then comes back into these and then there's a little piston in here and the piston shoots up with the pressure and allows the pressure to alleviate in this little cylinder like there's like a little sealed piston and cylinder there's air up here and as the piston goes up you know it swaps it's it's a pretty cool little intricate system that allows the pressure to escape and not go against your water pipes so that is what i installed these are both about 40 dollars i think it came to about 80 bucks for both of them and usually i think um i am no professional and hence why i did this but these are usually built into the wall um and if they didn't they're probably not they're not probably not specific to code which i would disagree with but anyway that's that's just me so i wanted to find a solution i didn't know a solution like this existed but it does and it's simple to use it's literally a screw-on on fitting onto the male end here onto your valve and then you screw your water hose this is three three quarters inch you know normal standard thread and they also make half inch so those if you have loud knocking banging pipes for your washer and dryer for any water appliance um it's probably water hammer and they do make a fix for it and they are called water hammer arresters so i hope this video uh helps some of you out because i had no idea i had to spend some time researching this so that's what they are that's how you fix it and i've heard nothing but success when it comes to loud knocking noises in your wall when people install these guys that goes away so hopefully you guys enjoyed the video this helps you out um if it did give it a thumbs up and subscribe alright peace everybody

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Length: 4min 30sec (270 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 08 2021