Water hammer started suddenly?
I moved into this house about 2 years ago with no water hammer issues at all. I have a submersible well pump with a well trol pressure tank and a whole house water filter. All sweated copper pipe.
The water filter failed (started leaking out of the seal) last weekend. Luckily I caught it early, and I just basically removed and bypassed it. I'm not an expert at pipe sweating so there was some trial and error but it was what you'd expect-- shut water off, close valve to pressure tank, drain as best I could, sweat it, turn water pressure back on, inspect, repeat.
Anyway, took me longer than it should have but I got it done. But now I have water hammer. Pretty bad, especially with the washing machine. I tried those little AA size arrestors you can just thread on the washing machine outlet, but that didn't help. So I'm kind of at a loss on what to do next-- 2 story house so most of the piping is hidden behind walls.
I just don't understand why it started. What can cause water hammer to start out of nowhere like this?
Thanks in advance.
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The water filter failed (started leaking out of the seal) last weekend. Luckily I caught it early, and I just basically removed and bypassed it. I'm not an expert at pipe sweating so there was some trial and error but it was what you'd expect-- shut water off, close valve to pressure tank, drain as best I could, sweat it, turn water pressure back on, inspect, repeat.
Anyway, took me longer than it should have but I got it done. But now I have water hammer. Pretty bad, especially with the washing machine. I tried those little AA size arrestors you can just thread on the washing machine outlet, but that didn't help. So I'm kind of at a loss on what to do next-- 2 story house so most of the piping is hidden behind walls.
I just don't understand why it started. What can cause water hammer to start out of nowhere like this?
Thanks in advance.
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