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Posted by Speedy Jim on September 25, 2006, 1:17 pm
Malathan wrote:
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>>Malathan wrote:
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>>>After taking a shower (1 piece shower-bath unit), I can hear what
>>>sounds like a dripping in the wall. The plumbing on the shower in in
>>>the wall to the bedroom, so placing ear on both sides I can hear it.
>>>The sound is constant, every 8-10 seconds it will drip. Due to
>>>consistency, I ruled out noise from tub expanding/contracting from hot
>>>shower. No leaks show in the wall, under baseboard in bedroom, or
>>>from down below (downstairs). After an hour or so the dripping stops.
>>>
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>>If the waste piping is PVC, dripping *inside* the pipe
>>will sound like that and is normal.
>>Jim
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> Any way of telling the type of piping? House was built in 2000.
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> - Clayton
Built in 2000 is almost certainly PVC (or ABS).
If no basement, may be hard to actually see any of it.
I will say the drip you hear is normal pipe noise.
Jim
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