Vibrating Inside Bathroom Wall

I have a humming noise come from inside a wall in my bathroom.

Vibrating inside bathroom wall.

I m guessing there are pipes in this wall that fill the toilet beca read more. Pipe vibration not only can be annoying but it may lead to pipe damage as the vibrations split weld joints. It s the loudest through a wall that separates the master bath and the stairwell. The good news is that most clattering knocking and pounding sounds are not signs of impending doom.

Five years ago before that the kitchen pipe bursted and flooded the. The discharge sets up one hell of a vibration often heard in the rest of the house. It s not related to air conditioning it happens even when both apartments have their ac off. We just had a new water heater installed about 10 months prior after our old one leaked and started to flood the garage.

But it sounds just like a large rat traipsing inside the wall. It would have collapsed by now if that was the cause. Vibrating water supply pipes may cause a vibration sound in your house s plumbing which you may hear through the toilet as it refills the tank with water. I ve been hearing a vibrating motor sound throughout the entire house in the walls.

The vibration comes when no water is being used and when the water is being used. Again only the outer walls that separate us from the outside and really only the front door area. I would suggest you check your water heater pressure relief valve now to see if it went off or is currently pouring out water. Normally a leak unless so large as to cause pretty much immediately visible water on a floor or maybe outside faucet or sprinkler system leaking heavily due to freezing will not cause vibration just a whishing or gentle water flowing sound like if a faucet or toilet is dripping.

But for the long term health of your system such noises should be checked to find the root cause. The noise repeats every 5 10 seconds or so and sounds like something mechanical inside the wall is shaking loose or vibrating against something. My home is a 2 story built in 1987. I ve had the phone company come out and check the line the noise is coming in the approximate location where the phone line meets the house.

When the toilet in the detached garage man cave is flushed there is a terrible vibration rattle in the kitchen area behind a wall. Phone company says the line wouldn t cause a vibration if it did the line would be smoking. Something in the air ducts or outlet vents for the fireplace bathroom vent etc is loose. Just find any orifice on the outside of the building and look inside for a loose screen.