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dwaxter
Having problems with excessively loud dripping in my downpipes. I have a two storey house. in each corner there is a 1.2m downpipe (rectangular) that takes the water from the top roof to the first floor roof. At the bottom of these is a 40cm right angle rectangular down pipe section with 4 holes to obviously dissipate the water. Apart from the return from the rtop roof gutter to he wall, the downpipes are vertical. When there is decent rain, the noise is OK, however, when there is very light rain, the trickling of water into and through these pipes is extremely loud. It wakes me up of a night time, inside the house! I have tried some ‘padding’ at the base of the downpipe (used some foam concrete expansion joint material), but to no real affect. Any ideas? Someone suggested dropping some chain into each downpipe – would this help?
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What it sounds like is your gutter is flat and the water lays in there and every little bit that gets in there drops down instead of drainnig out. take the elbow off and get one of those rubber elbows and put it on the bottom , should work , let me know.
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Cheers. Will pop out to local plumbing supplies and try to purchase rubber elbow to try as suggested. Is the chain dangling within the downpipe a workable solution? What might be the best way to attach at the top (gutter level) to ensure the ‘trickles’ of water actually utilise the chain?
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Just lay in gutter about 12″ back and tie it down so it dont get lost in heavy rain, it should act like capalary action, and little rain will just go down chain, let me know.
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What size chain links do you think I should use? Plastic of galvanised chain? Thanks.
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Use PVC chain and about 3/4″ links, realy dont matter what size you use, Let me know.
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Hi, sorry to come so late to the party.
I have a solution to noisy downpipes. I made an insert that goes into round downpipes that controls the flow so that from a trickle to a downpour, the water stays on the sides of the pipe and it stops all the annoying gurgling . Its cheap to make and you can retrofit it to the standard 90 mm downpipes and you’ll never hear a drip out of the pipe again!» This message has been edited by DUNBAR on 22 January 2007
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Hi Muckraker,
I have the same problem with rectangular downpipes.
How do I make the modification?
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