Water Pressure Pump

[jolsen]

Hi,

I recently have had a fair amount of plumbing work done and had a water pressure pump installed. For the room where the pump is installed I doubled sheeted the ceiling with soundblock board which were screwed onto resiliant bars attached to the ceiling joists so the screws holding the sounblock board wouldn't screw into the joists. I used this method in my utility room and it works fine blocking out the noise of the washer/dryer etc.

The problem I have is above the pump is a bedroom with bathroom and the noise seems to be traveling from the pump up the copper pipes and resonating around the bathroom which even with the door closed is still fairly loud in the bedroom.

Any ideas to even deaden the sound down would be hugely appreciated.

[Randy S]

The pipe is in contact with the structure, you need to decouple the pipe from any studs or joist it is in contact with.
Attaching pipe insulation to the pipe would change the resonence but without decoupling you will still get some remitting sound.