Screaming Shower
My shower has started making a screaming noise–a high-pitched, even-toned, continuous blast of sound–when the water comes out of the shower head (no noise from bathtub tap). What causes it, how do I fix it, and is it merely annoying or indicative of a real problem?
My shower has started making a screaming noise–a high-pitched, even-toned, continuous blast of sound–when the water comes out of the shower head (no noise from bathtub tap). What causes it, how do I fix it, and is it merely annoying or indicative of a real problem?
Oh wait, sorry, not in the shower head.
Take shower ahead apart, clean it, check it out.
Change the washer — or whatever is in there instead of a washer.
Try turning the shower off & on a few times – not the water, just the diverter from tub to shower. Sometimes air gets trapped there.
“the view of the naked body is making it scream”
that’s a classic!
I been wondering about that, too. Our bathroom sink does that, but only when you turn the hot water on. Of course I couldn’t replicate the noise when the plumber was there…
I always thought it was from the air in the water in winter (only happens to us in winter, and only in our bathroom sink). Same air that makes cold water temporarily cloudy when it comes out of the faucet.
i just googled looking for the answer…
There should be a pressure relief valve on the top of the tank. It could be leaking.That would make hiss. The valve is there to release pressure if your tank should overheat and create too much pressure. It is a safety device. Do not open the safety valve to check it out, that will make leak. just listen to see if that is the noise. Also, turn down the water temperature that may help.
and then another one..
Wow, strange answers today. 1) Electric water heaters should not make any noise at all under any circumstances. 2) Gas water heaters should make burner noises only, first when the burner comes on and then then while burning, just like the burners on a gas stove with pilot lights not electric igniters. I’ve never heard this noise called a “hiss” but i can tell you that a water leak hitting the burners sounds different that a stove top burner. 3) Sometimes (rarely) a pin hole leak develops on the inside surface of the firebox but if this was the case you would most likely see some water under the heater. 4) If the flu (chimney) is not drawing the hot burned gases from the water heater correctly it is possible that the water produced by the combustion process is condensing on the inside of the flu and dripping onto the burners. You have probably noticed cars dripping water from their exhaust pipes on a cold day, same thing as that. 5) You are actually supposed to drain and flush the sediments from the bottom of your water heater tank once or twice a year but nobody ever does this. After a while these sediments build up and your heater has to heat all this junk before it can heat the water and then this junk get really hot and continues to make poping noises after the burner shuts off. 6) There is a sacrificial zinc anode rod inside you heater that absorbes the electrolysis of water passing over metal and these erode away after many years and you are supposed to replace this and nobody ever does and then the metal of your heater starts to erode away. So – see if you can get a competant plumber to check the flu and flush the heater, then save up and get a new one as soon as you can. The new ones are really a lot better. One last thought – The old training films showed water heaters exploding and taking off like rockets right through the roof but that was before the use of modern safety devices. It is very unlikely that you are at risk for that.
Source(s):
40+ years as a field engineer.
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the view of the naked body is making it scream
i’ve ALWAYS wondered this myself!!! usually just turning the dial a little bit to the left or right makes the screaming go away.. but yeah what causes it? hot steam?
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