READERS’ INQUIRIES
NOISE AND WATER PIPES. N W writes: Last year I had running water installed in the bedrooms of this house, and the supply connected to the bathrooms. We are now seriously troubled by two great drawbacks and I should greatly appreciate your advice. (1) Every time hot water is drawn in the bedrooms or bathrooms the noise in the various rooms is extremely troublesome, especially in those bedrooms which are immediately under the supply tank. (2) The expansion and contraction of the copper tubing. [(I) The trouble ? s practically invariable in cases where running water is laid on to bedrooms. 'Noise is conducted by the hard metal tubing, so that a tap opened in one room is audible in all rooms connected to the same supply. Casing and packing pipes may do something to abate the nuisance, but w r ill not cure it. (2) Expansion and contraction cannot be prevented where temperatures rise and tall. It, owing to movement being prevented, joints are found to loosen, bends or “ springs ” must be inserted to allow play.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22070, 2 July 1935, Page 2
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178READERS’ INQUIRIES Evening Star, Issue 22070, 2 July 1935, Page 2
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