Banging, rattling or creaking pipes: check it step by step

Safety look

Before any reading: is anything like this on site?

A gas smell at a heater, an appliance, gas piping or anywhere on site
Water reaching a panel, an outlet or powered equipment, or standing around a powered heater or pump
Someone in water near a running pump, or water on the controls of a booster or other pump
Sewage on surfaces or electrical parts, or something toxic or caustic that may be in the drinking water
Water running that cannot be stopped at a fixture stop, a branch valve or the main, such as from a fitting the banging has cracked
A ceiling or floor sagging, bulging or holding water, or framing that looks damaged near the noisy pipe
A relief valve or its pipe capped or plugged on a working heater or boiler
A carbon monoxide alarm, or exhaust spilling or soot at a gas or oil appliance

Taken as what you could see, not as a finding that none of these are present.

What decides which causes can apply

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A noise in a closed heating loop has causes of its own and is worked as a heating problem.

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Banging, rattling or creaking pipes.

Safety look

What decides which causes can apply