single pipe ticking sound at start of heating cycle

Hello,
I live in a 2 story+basement residential house. I hear maybe 10-20 seconds of ticking shortly after the start of a heating cycle. It's not particularly loud, but I wonder if it is trying to tell me something… I hear it in a my basement, in the vicinity of 2 risers - not sure which it is… All the exposed pipes in the basement are insulated.. One of the riser goes through the ground floor uninsulated to a second the second floor radiator. The other riser goes to the first floor and directly into a radiator.
Thanks for reading!
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The expanding pipe is rubbing against wood …
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Sounds like expansion noises.
Is this a new house for you? Or is it a new sound from a system you've lived with for several years?
Trying to squeeze the best out of a Weil-McLain JB-5 running a 1912 1 pipe system.0 -
If you can find where it is really coming from, you might be able to get rid of it assuming it is bothersome by placing a plastic (cut from a milk jug) shim between the pipe and whatever.
Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England0 -
Ahh… pipe rubbing against…something. House is ~ 120 years old, I've been in it for ~ 22 of them…I've noticed it for past several years…maybe longer. I will try to wedge wedge plastic shims where risers move through floor - if I can't find source, I'm guessing its not a serious issue?
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