How to Stop Water Pipes Hammer Banging Permanently - Install Ceramic Tap Disc Spindles!!

hello everybody and welcome back to the channel do you suffer from pipe hammer and are you looking for a simple and easy way to solve this problem yourself if so then you've come to the right place now in this very bathroom previously i showed you how you could install a springed anti-hammer tap washer to solve this problem well it's been about six months now had a fair few comments from people saying how it was a fairly short-term solution to the problem as they believe these spring washes will wear out and the problem will come back so i've been thinking about it and as you may have seen in some of my other videos i'm a real fan of these ceramic spindles so when i was thinking about the anti hammer problem the problem actually exists because the seat of the tap starts to wear and the spindle wears which allows the water to pulsate up and down in between the washer and the base of the seat when you're opening and closing those taps so thinking about this i thought i wonder if there is ceramic spindles will solve the problem now i've had a bit of an experiment and i know it will but you watch on and see the results for yourself so as always when doing anything plumbing the first thing you need to do is to locate your water mains and to switch that off now these are typically at the front of your house and this is what they look like so having located the water mains we simply turn the tap off and there we go so with the mains off we just need to release the water out of the system as you can see we've got that out there now we just need to take the top off of the tap the locking nut there all right so we've got that off and then we just as we did before we just undo the base the tap and then we can get to the spindle and then the there you go you can see right here this is the spring washer which we put in previously to stop the pipe hammer and that's been really effective but interestingly it has been about six months and what you can see i'll just show you up close you can see that actually has worn quite excessively that rubber so i think people in the comments were correct that you know you're still going to be replacing these washers every probably year or so and looking at that wear and these are expensive washers relative to a normal standard washer as opposed to once we install these ceramic spindles these really are considered to be a lifetime fit and these will not wear out all right so to install these ceramic spindles it really is quite easy so you remove the plastic base cup and one of the things to make sure is you actually have these two pieces separated to start with so with that plastic base cap installed you then thread the main component down into the seat now the reason that you will not get any pipe hammer is the base of the ceramic spindle makes a 100 contact with the seat and never actually lifts up because the water actually flows up through the inside of the ceramic spindle and out through those ceramic discs so therefore with this installation you will never get that pipe hammer effect so having screwed that piece in by hand we just need to tighten up that onto the base of the seat just lightly just so it goes up firm we don't need to over tighten this so you can just see i've applied normal tap pressure there and then we make sure we've got the seal on and then we screw down the cap over the top just like that and then we firmly fasten this so with that in place we can now test so i'll go switch the water back on all right so that water mains back on we can now test so and you can see we get 100 no pipe hammer effect with this ceramic spindle so just check for legs and we can see there's no leaks around that's just a little bit of surface water there so we're good to go to completely assemble this tap all right so to assemble we simply need to take that top off that i loosely fitted put the base back on get the top on here and put the locking nut on the top on the cold and we are done now because i'm such a fan of these ceramic spindles i don't need to but i'm also going to change the hot so they'll be the identical level and you know then i just won't have to replace any tap washers in this bathroom hopefully ever again in my lifetime so i'll switch that water off and we'll get into it [Music] all right so that's installed and the mains water's back on so let's just test it [Music] all right so as you can see we've got absolutely no pipe hammer we've got both of our salary disks installed so all we have to do is do the final assembly put the cap back on and we are good to go so there you go folks that's how to solve pipe hammer in a really easy way with replacing your traditional tap spindles and washers with ceramic spindles and as i've explained this is a long term solution so folks you don't need to spend several hundred dollars calling a plumber out this is something you can really do yourself you've actually got a couple of alternatives which you can see in my videos to use a traditional washer but the spring style a little bit more expensive or as i've shown you here today you can replace with a ceramic spindle and you get all the benefits of the ceramic spindles they last pretty much forever and they're easy on arthritis they will not drip and like say all of those benefits so if you have like this video do feel free to like share and subscribe and in the meantime why don't you have a good day

Channel: DrewFixIt

Views: 1,233

Keywords: Pipe, Hammer, water, noise, pipes, stop, how, to, how to, DIY, banging, plumber, plumbing, tap, washer, cold, easy, cheap, cheapily, permanent, money, saver

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Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 15 2021