Alinraz
New Member
A few nights ago, my wife and I awoke to a foghorn noise in the house (and no, we don't live next to a lighthouse). It happens at random times and at random intervals, and doesn't seem to corrolate to usage of any apliances or faucets. It lasts about 9 seconds. Due to the randomness and the short time span, it's been very difficult to localize, but it seems to be comming from an area near our water heater in the garage. On the other side of that wall is our downstairs bath (shower, toliet and sink). House is 2 story, about 4 years old, we've owned it for about 1.5 years and never heard the noise till now.
Our gas inlet is also near there. I had PG&E out to look at the gas and they found a large piece of hardened pipe dope in the pipe and figured that was the cause. So we fixed that and then we had no problems last night. In addition, we had someone out to look at the water heater and while he did replace the gas piping (and found more pipe dope) and fixed a minor noise issue with the baffle, he found no other problems.
But, as of ~8am this morning, the noise is back. Happened so far this morning 3 times. I'm at a loss of ideas of what it could be and am getting a bit desparte for a fix.
I saw a suggestion that it could be the ballcock on a toilet, but it doesn't match any usage of the taps or toilets.
Our gas inlet is also near there. I had PG&E out to look at the gas and they found a large piece of hardened pipe dope in the pipe and figured that was the cause. So we fixed that and then we had no problems last night. In addition, we had someone out to look at the water heater and while he did replace the gas piping (and found more pipe dope) and fixed a minor noise issue with the baffle, he found no other problems.
But, as of ~8am this morning, the noise is back. Happened so far this morning 3 times. I'm at a loss of ideas of what it could be and am getting a bit desparte for a fix.
I saw a suggestion that it could be the ballcock on a toilet, but it doesn't match any usage of the taps or toilets.