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[mantahatch]

In my parents old house built in 1971 they could hear water running. The leak was actually on the other side of the road in the grass verge. Must have been about 150 foot from where there stop cock was.


Oh yes and noise went when stop cock turned off, but did the stop cock cut the flow of sound off as well ? With hind sight it was obvious as the grass verge had nice long green grass while everywhere else the grass was brown and dying, it was summertime 

[Sir Tigger KC]

In my parents old house built in 1971 they could hear water running. The leak was actually on the other side of the road in the grass verge. Must have been about 150 foot from where there stop cock was.


Oh yes and noise went when stop cock turned off, but did the stop cock cut the flow of sound off as well ? With hind sight it was obvious as the grass verge had nice long green grass while everywhere else the grass was brown and dying, it was summertime 

I guess that might be a possibility.  Sound travels a long way in water... 

[SIR Philbutt]

In my parents old house built in 1971 they could hear water running. The leak was actually on the other side of the road in the grass verge. Must have been about 150 foot from where there stop cock was.


Oh yes and noise went when stop cock turned off, but did the stop cock cut the flow of sound off as well ? With hind sight it was obvious as the grass verge had nice long green grass while everywhere else the grass was brown and dying, it was summertime 

I guess that might be a possibility.  Sound travels a long way in water... 

If you have a leak on main from meter then turning off stop cock and looking if meter still turning will show that.

Another thought is if you have an outside tap is that leaking, maybe into cavity ??

[martin42]

Have you isolated the combi boiler,there is an isolation valve underneath,see if sound stops,could be on the hot waterside of things not the cold,also is the pressure stable,and not been getting higher on its own,or dropping quickly over a few days?

[Sir Tigger KC]

No there's no outside tap and thankfully I'm not on a meter! 

The boiler seems fine and all is dry underneath.  That was my initial thoughts and that was where I removed a kitchen unit to crawl underneath  to check....