Hissing, banging can radiate lots of problems

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Got radiators? Then you?ve got a really old house. And ? ever wonder what all that hissing and banging is about?

My first house had radiators and pipes that hissed and banged ? unnerving sounds for the uninitiated. I figured the clanging was the way these cast-iron antiques communicated with each other about which of them wasn?t going to work that winter. There was always one that didn?t.

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