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Banging riser
ejmail12
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What would cause a riser to bang horribly in only one apartment in a 21 floor building?
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Indeed. A sag -- or badly pitched -- horizontal section somewhere along that particular riser. It could be in the basement -- but it also could be between floors somewhere. More likely the latter, if it is just one apartment.Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England0 -
If it's one pipe steam, somebody could have tried to modulate their heat with the valve too!0
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