Cameron Boivin
New Member
Good evening,
I recently moved into a new apartment (Built in 1999 but very well kept). The apartment has an Apollo based system. Since my girlfriend and I moved in the sound has occurred, that has been 10 days. It has been worse then what it is now. In the past ten days of narrowing down the sound and having the apartments third party plumber come by, they have done some repairs yet the noise continues. The apartment maintenance replaced the hot water heater and bleed the lines. They found the hot water heater with small holes and rust. A plumber came the other day and added a "control valve" to the new water heater yet last night it seemed like the noise picked up a bit. Not in noise level but consistency.
The noise is a tapping or knocking. It only occurs in the bedroom for the most point; the hot water heater is located on the porch which is right outside of the bedroom. The air handler for the Apollo system is right outside of the bedroom French doors in the wall to the right. The sound seems to have narrowed a bit to being closer to the air handler, also when the sound occurs I can't hear it at the hot water heater anymore. The sound does not correlate to the heat running or not, but it does seem to intensify or happen when water is run either by myself or upstairs neighbor. It's hard because there is not an obvious correlation at any given time.
The plumber stated that if the sound continues to get an HVAC company to check that portion before he would return. I've read up a lot on this and I don't think it's contraction due to temperature. I live in NC where it can be 20 degrees then 70, the temps don't really matter and it happens. Also, I’ve tried switching the heat on and off and it happens. As well as when the fan is on auto or just on it happens. It mainly happens at night and in the afternoon.
Any ideas? It's becoming Chinese torture and the white noise machine does not always mask it.
Thank you!
I recently moved into a new apartment (Built in 1999 but very well kept). The apartment has an Apollo based system. Since my girlfriend and I moved in the sound has occurred, that has been 10 days. It has been worse then what it is now. In the past ten days of narrowing down the sound and having the apartments third party plumber come by, they have done some repairs yet the noise continues. The apartment maintenance replaced the hot water heater and bleed the lines. They found the hot water heater with small holes and rust. A plumber came the other day and added a "control valve" to the new water heater yet last night it seemed like the noise picked up a bit. Not in noise level but consistency.
The noise is a tapping or knocking. It only occurs in the bedroom for the most point; the hot water heater is located on the porch which is right outside of the bedroom. The air handler for the Apollo system is right outside of the bedroom French doors in the wall to the right. The sound seems to have narrowed a bit to being closer to the air handler, also when the sound occurs I can't hear it at the hot water heater anymore. The sound does not correlate to the heat running or not, but it does seem to intensify or happen when water is run either by myself or upstairs neighbor. It's hard because there is not an obvious correlation at any given time.
The plumber stated that if the sound continues to get an HVAC company to check that portion before he would return. I've read up a lot on this and I don't think it's contraction due to temperature. I live in NC where it can be 20 degrees then 70, the temps don't really matter and it happens. Also, I’ve tried switching the heat on and off and it happens. As well as when the fan is on auto or just on it happens. It mainly happens at night and in the afternoon.
Any ideas? It's becoming Chinese torture and the white noise machine does not always mask it.
Thank you!