@ThePunggolHandyMan : Solved! Water Hammer.

okay what you have here is water hammer all right this is when you're vibrating through all your pipes and what what this is caused by is uh uh by movement of water so you can imagine water you know you have like liters of water inside your pipes and as soon as it hits a stop okay it's like uh you know like a train hitting the wall so it happens in most uh households all right and one way about this uh going about solving this is to install a water a water hammer arrester in your pipeline but there's a neat little trick i want to show you if you want to try to diy this is to get air into your system because if there's no air into your system there's no compressibility and there's nothing to stop the vibration and in this case the lines are full of water and you know it's just vibrating because water is is a liquid that cannot be compressed so um first things first is we need to shut off water from the whole house and then we need to drain out all the water from the uh from the plumbing so i'll show you guys how to do that in just a sec but before i do do give me a thumbs up uh subscribe i put up videos uh every every week and uh you know do leave a comment if you have any any ideas any videos you like me to make anything you want to ask i'll respond to almost all your comments so without further ado i think we'll get straight into it okay so you want to look for the riser outside your house it says gas and water if you are in a condo you might need to get your condo management to uh open it up but in hdb it's open if you landed property you know it's somewhere outside open it up and we're gonna find the uh the riser so i'm looking for this house and okay so i've identified the uh the water riser and i'm gonna turn it off you turn it clockwise until it switches off okay you can make it fairly tight you don't need to go all the way but that's good enough right so the the water has been turned off already right now i'm in the toilet and why i'm here is because you want to drain the water from the highest and the lowest point of your plumbing system in this home the lowest point is the uh the bday so just open that up okay the water has been turned off open that okay and you make sure that the the tap okay put it down on the ground somewhere somewhere there and make sure the tap is turned all the way up and then you want to open up all the shower shower mixers so i'm going to open this one and what it does it opens up it releases the vacuum so that all the water can drain out i'm going to open the shower here and the one inside the master bedroom so as you can see as soon as i open up you can hear that there's water that's flowing out the bidet and this i'm going to open up the master bedroom so all the water can come out so uh i turn on the master uh the master mixer and water is still flowing out from the uh from the bidet hose so i'm just going to leave it for about five minutes and you know wait until all the water has been drained out and then we'll put everything back together and it will re-pressurize the system and you'll see how that okay so the uh the water has stopped and i'm going to put everything back together again so remember all the tabs that you have turned on you turn off if not if you want to turn on the the mains everything is going to you know burst so yeah turn off all the taps here here and in the master bedroom as well okay so the water hammer has been fixed um that is one way you can go about trying to troubleshoot it sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but you can give it a shot if you want a diy and yeah if you like that tip do leave a like share and subscribe and of course if this doesn't work you might need to get professional but just give it a shot first till next time take care

Channel: The Punggol HandyMan

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Id: IwfxN-oTaHE

Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 14 2022