Help,my wife is complaining about the noise from my overflow

[Oliver d]

My wife is complaining about the noise my overflow makes anybody have any ideas how I can silence it.Its a coast to coast overflow and the noise comes from the water tumbling down before it flows to the sump

 

[kput]

Honestly the only solution is to just get rid of the whole thing.



The wife I mean, of course.

 

[Crabby48]

Don’t know your wife but if she is like the rest she will only complain about something else

Is the noise from the water falling down the pipe. If so could you install a gate valve?
I’m not familiar with coast to coast

 

[Bfragale]

There are some ways to reduce the sound of the drain pipe “gurgling”. Here is a thread on the topic https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-silence-the-gurgling-sound.313727/

You know what they say: happy wife happy life. Lol

 

[Magellan]

turn the tables. The best defense is a good offense. Say things like “I can’t hear my fish tank when you talk”.

 

[Peace River]

Are you saying that the noise is coming from the water tumbling through the weir into the overflow box or from the overflow box drain? If it is the first then reduce the return pump flow. If it is the second then what type of drain configuration do you have (bean animal, Herbie, etc.)?

 

[eggplantparrot]

turn the tables. The best defense is a good offense. Say things like “I can’t hear my fish tank when you talk”.

omg you almost made me spew my food.

 

[Oliver d]

Its not the drain pipe that is making the noise it is the water as it duns down the overflow wall

 

[Hemmdog]

Its not the drain pipe that is making the noise it is the water as it duns down the overflow wall

Where is your drain pipe? Single drain?

 

[Silver14SS]

How many drain pipes are in the box? You should be able to raise the water level inside the box with a pipe on the drain bulkhead and a valve on the primary drain.

 

[Peace River]

Its not the drain pipe that is making the noise it is the water as it duns down the overflow wall

If you have a valve on your primary drain then you can close it a bit in order to raise the water level in the overflow box (only if you also have an emergency drain pipe).

 

[Water Dog]

What is the drain setup? Do you have standpipes that you can raise to reduce the distance the water has to fall?

 

[Oliver d]

One 2" bean drain down to the sump overflow weir has a capacity of 5 gallons

 

[amazongb]

Try adding filter floss in there coast to coast style

 

[Jefdav84]

If you have a valve on your primary drain then you can close it a bit in order to raise the water level in the overflow box (only if you also have an emergency drain pipe).

Agreed. Raising the water level should help some but in my opinion there will always be some sort of "sound" from the water movement.

 

[PicassoDan]

If it's one drain pipe, then it's not really a bean-anything... and it really won't ever be quiet.

A Beananimal style overflow has three pipes: the main pipe with a valve for tuning, a secondary that flows a minimal amount of water, and a totally dry emergency pipe.

 

[LARedstickreefer]

I got some apple AirPod pros. The noise canceling works really well. Not just for the overflow ;-)

 

[ianryd]

Don't know if it would work on your setup, but I put a piece of acrylic and set a 3" upholstry foam block over the top of my overflow and it reduced the sound immensely. It's not the prettyest thing in the world but it does the job. Also slightly adjusting the flow rate with a gate valve into my sump helped get the trickling/gurgling noises down. My setup is a single pipe running from my overflow.

 

[Water Dog]

One 2" bean drain down to the sump overflow weir has a capacity of 5 gallons

Raise that Durso standpipe to reduce the distance the water has to fall.

 

[Oliver d]

The noise is not from the drain pipe but from the water flowing into the weir before flowing going down to the sump