Loud vibrating in hw pipes

[dp7]

please could anyone help me.

I have recently moved into a new house and find that when i turn on the upstairs hw taps they omit a squealing sound and splutter, as the water gets warmer the pipes behind the basins begin to vibrate and gradually get more violent.

I have tried letting the taps run but this only cures the problem for a short while.

What could be the problem?

 

[Nige F]

New house as in Newbuild....or New to You....either way pipes are in need of clipping .......I just love new houses

 

[dp7]

Thanks. The house is two years old, what is involved in clipping the pipes?

 

[Softus]

Buy some pipe clips and install them - it's just a case of drilling/plugging/screwing them into masonry, or just screwing them into wood.

If they're in the loft then clip roughly every meter. It's not critical - you'll soon get the idea of how close together to put the clips to stop everthing waving around.

If the pipe is too far from the nearest surface then use a small block of wood to distance off; you can also get spacer blocks to fit sungly under the clips - ask at your plumbers' merchant.