Hi everyone!
I live in a townhouse and a few months ago I noticed that my main water line in my crawl space would start vibrating at random. It never vibrates when I run water. One day, the vibration was so bad, that it woke me up in the middle of the night. I discovered the vibration is coming from both mine and my next door neighbor’s water meters. We have separate meters, but they are side by side.
When talking to the city, they believe that my neighbor is at fault and something in their plumbing is causing vibrations to transmit to my meter. My neighbor has been willing to work with me and we even had a plumber come out and look at both of our homes. The plumber noticed that there was a valve not fully opened in my neighbor’s house and proceeded to fully open it. Unfortunately that didn’t fix the issue we are having.
I’m pretty torn as to which party is at fault. The meters are the cities responsibility however, my neighbor admitted that the vibrations occur when she showers. I really don’t want to have my neighbor spend all of this money at the risk of it being a city problem, but at the same time, I’m very worried that this can damage my plumbing if we don’t get this resolved. Any thoughts or ideas on what may be causing this? Unfortunately, most of the plumbers are stumped because the noise never occurs when I’m running water, so they believe the cause of the issue isn’t within my home.
Thanks in advance!
I live in a townhouse and a few months ago I noticed that my main water line in my crawl space would start vibrating at random. It never vibrates when I run water. One day, the vibration was so bad, that it woke me up in the middle of the night. I discovered the vibration is coming from both mine and my next door neighbor’s water meters. We have separate meters, but they are side by side.
When talking to the city, they believe that my neighbor is at fault and something in their plumbing is causing vibrations to transmit to my meter. My neighbor has been willing to work with me and we even had a plumber come out and look at both of our homes. The plumber noticed that there was a valve not fully opened in my neighbor’s house and proceeded to fully open it. Unfortunately that didn’t fix the issue we are having.
I’m pretty torn as to which party is at fault. The meters are the cities responsibility however, my neighbor admitted that the vibrations occur when she showers. I really don’t want to have my neighbor spend all of this money at the risk of it being a city problem, but at the same time, I’m very worried that this can damage my plumbing if we don’t get this resolved. Any thoughts or ideas on what may be causing this? Unfortunately, most of the plumbers are stumped because the noise never occurs when I’m running water, so they believe the cause of the issue isn’t within my home.
Thanks in advance!