Finally, a little peace and quiet.

[k3nnyp]

After being woken up by my 19 month old at 2:30, taking him downstairs and spending 3 hours getting him back to sleep on the couch I noticed how loud my overflow is. Not that it has gotten louder or that I had not noticed it before but it's 5 am, otherwise quiet in the house, and I can't go back to sleep now. It didn't help that I was at Rich's yesterday and he was showing off how quiet his DIY bean animal overflow was.

So, now I'm on a mission. Did a little research on durso style overflows ( which I have ) and the commonly reported problems. None of which seemed to match my symptoms. Spending a few minutes trying to track down the source of the noise it wasn't actually my overflow as much as it was my return and a whole drilled in the bottom corner of the pvc 90 to prevent siphoning. The noise was coming from the spraying of water. I found a piece of sponge which I was able to wedge between it and the overflow box and voila, much less noise now. I can still hear the overflow but it is at least 75% quieter now in my family room than before. At least until my son wakes back up, he's stirring already.

 

[rdnelson]

Good deal. But, it isn't blocking the air from breaking the siphon is it? Would hate to hear about a lake in the middle of your floor.

 

[k3nnyp]

I used sponge to ensure it would allow air to flow. Plus one of my lockline return lines are very close to the top of the water if it did clog.

 

[rdnelson]

Good deal.