Somehow making the process of replacing the counters with a rather interesting woman. Got one sensitive question: "Why, being in the toilet, I hear the neighbors' conversations clearly enough? And is it possible to overcome it? "
Quite often, in the toilets, I also hear the conversations of the neighbors on the riser, sometimes so clearly that you can make out the conversation. But besides that, excuse the expression, you can hear how they go to the toilet. Agree, this is not pleasant.
Some readers are very close to this problem. Therefore, I think that it is necessary to disassemble it.
What to do to get rid of unnecessary noise?
- "Sculpt" soundproofing
- Move from a panel high-rise building
- Solve the problem by eliminating the "jamb" of plumbers
We will consider the last option, it is the most common:
In the photo above, you can see how the plumbers replaced the pipes. Pay attention to the passage of the pipe to the neighbors through the sleeve. There is another option in the photo below:
Let's move away from the aesthetic component of these photos, and move on to the essence, figure out what it is and what it is for.
Any pipeline, made of any material, tends to expand when heated, and when it cools down to take its previous shape or decrease. Therefore, casing is performed in the ceilings so that the pipe can move freely. This is the main reason, there are others, but they will not be discussed in this article.
When the new water supply system is handed over to the customer (UK), he accepts them in accordance with the joint venture for Water supply and sewerage from 2016:
4.7 When designing and reconstructing engineering networks in residential and office buildings, the nodes of the riser passage through the interfloor floors should be filled modern elastic sealing materials, while the riser pipeline must be enclosed in a casing made of mineral wool products of the NG flammability group.
So the installers made the sleeve, "as expected," but did not complete their work to the end. Therefore, the neighbors are heard, there are cracks between the sleeves and the pipe, from there the sound of the neighbors' vital activity is well heard.
These gaps had to be filled with non-flammable material, asbestos cord for example. This is done so that in the event of a fire below or above the riser, the fire does not pass to you through this crack.
A simple option for filling this gap is polyurethane foam. She will protect your apartment from the conversations of neighbors and noise when fulfilling natural needs. But in order to protect itself from fire, it must be filled with non-combustible material. Which foam is not.
From SW. plumber, Timofey Mikhailov