Popping Noise In Attic

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Popping noise in attic. There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to. While rodents and other critters can make a variety of noises the more likely cause is something else inside your home. Our house is making settling noises in the attic over the bedroom. Popping is a common way to describe a variety of noises that a house makes and the causes are varied.

Those noises should decrease during the home s first year or so. Homeowner is dead set on the problem being from termite damage. If that doesn t end the sound replace the dimmer. Some bulbs mention on their packaging that they are designed to work well with dimmers.

Wall or attic sounds. A clicking noise in particular could be caused by your heater. A homeowner was complaining of popping and cracking noises in his bedroom walls ceiling at night. Grinding noises are likely to be made by some type of rodent.

They may be chewing to improve passageways or just for fun. If a fluorescent bulb is making the noise the fixture s ballast might need to be replaced the ballast is the part of the fixture that controls voltage to the bulb. In new homes roof trusses or the wood used to frame the attic often is green meaning it still has a high moisture content as it dries it can shift and contract triggering bangs loud enough to make you think a tree fell on the roof. I tried to brush him off for a while just telling him that it was house sounds.

Clicking knocking and clanking. Likely culprits are rats mice grey squirrels and flying squirrels. Day and night we hear loud cracking or popping sounds usually three or four in succession. No that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic.

This is a classic squirrel in the attic noise. What s that clicking noise in my attic at night. A loud popping noise in the attic is often very common especially when there are extreme temperature differences such as large and rapid fluctuations between night and day temperatures. Snarling noise in the attic.

Grinding noise in the attic. A year or more ago a small adjacent attic portion was looked at and there were some decent signs. If your house is giving you the creeps because of popping noises from inside the walls and up in the attic you can probably chalk it up to something other than spirits from beyond the grave.