Popping Noises In The Attic

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.

Popping noises in the attic.

Our house was built 10. When you hear noises in the attic during the early morning there are a few pests that could be to blame. Clicking knocking and clanking. As for the popping noise in the.

There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to. Our house is making settling noises in the attic over the bedroom. You might be able to save the water heater by draining it to flush away. 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.

Birds like to hunt for food in the morning. The wind is flexing the rafters or trusses. Popping is a common way to describe a variety of noises that a house makes and the causes are varied. So if you hear noises when you first wake up you could have birds flying in and out of your attic.

At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds. The only way for me to have full confidence would be to go into your attic and inspect all the locations where one piece of lumber is connected to another. Wall or attic sounds. Roof popping noise can be caused by the wind.

It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse. Popping in the morning and evening is thermal expansion. Also when the temperature becomes very hot or very cold or when sunlight warms one part of a home and not another these noises may become more pronounced. 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.

The creaking sound is perfectly normal and is caused by the movement of roof timbers responding to changes in temperature. Those noises should decrease during the home s first year or so. Day and night we hear loud cracking or popping sounds usually three or four in succession. Fortunately it appears it s pretty easy to get around up in your attic because it s a steeper roof and it was common framed instead of using prefabricated trusses.

Who s making noises in my attic in the early morning.