What is this strange noise coming from my kitchen sink?
Question:I live in a one bedroom apartment with about 16 units. Since I moved in 2 years ago, I've heard a strange clanking sound coming from my kitchen sink. It hasn't happened as often as before, but I can't figure out what it is.
I just got my garbage disposal cleaned out by a pro. and he can't figure out what it is either. Darn the person above my apartment. If she ever clogs her drain, mine will get clogged, too. But that's not it.
I thought it might be some kind of animal, but it's not. It sounds like someone is dropping silverware down the pipe. My disposal works fine - use vinegar and baking soda, etc. and keep it clean.
Anyone with any clues as to what this is and how to get it to stop. It's kinda creepy.
Oh, and a side note, I wish people in upstairs apartments would be careful about toilets and sinks not clogging up. The downstairs people will suffer :-(, and with a hefty bill I might add.
Answers:
My daughter lived in a one-bedroom apartment, in a complex of four floors with about 30 apartments per floor. Unfortunately, her apartment was on the first floor. I can not TELL you the amount of times that she had sewage spread through her apartment, because the woman on the 3rd floor INSISTED on flushing chicken bones down her toilet! The only way to prevent it happening was to jump up and immediately start flushing and plunging, when you heard the pipes start backing up (and they always made a really peculiar noise when they did).
As to the noise in the sink...water pipes need to be connected FIRMLY to the wooden joisting. If they do not have enough strapping to hold them tightly, then they will bang back and forth when the water is either turned on or turned off, or even during running the water, if the water is hitting 90 degree angled pipe. An easy way to test to see if the pipes are strapped down well, is to just reach under the sink and jiggle them. If they move, then they are not strapped down, and they will bang. My daughter's apartment had this problem as well. I solved it by shoving rags tightly in between the pipes and the wall. Afterwards, you could hear them knocking upstairs, but not in my daughter's apartment anymore.
Maybe you should see if you can get a transfer to another apartment on the top floor. It will mean lugging your groceries up all those stairs, but you won't have to put up with the flooding anymore.
its just old
Sorry, hon. But the strange sound is coming from me. I am your upstairs neighbor, and sometimes I have been dropping silverware down the pipe from time to time, for my own amusement. By the way, that's probably the reason that you might get a little clog from time to time. Ha ha!
Simple..the plumbing wasn't done completely right but not a problem.They should put thier air vents spaced properly and risers on the plumbing to prevent this..but it is'nt a health issue or even a plumbing failure..just simply a noise problem
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