Popping Noise In Attic

What s that clicking noise in my attic at night.

Popping noise in attic. A homeowner was complaining of popping and cracking noises in his bedroom walls ceiling at night. While rodents and other critters can make a variety of noises the more likely cause is something else inside your home. This movement creates the popping noise. Homeowner is dead set on the problem being from termite damage.

Our house was built 10. A clicking noise in particular could be caused by your heater. 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. As the lumber expands it moves and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren t moving at the same rate.

It s thermal expansion and contraction. A year or more ago a small adjacent attic portion was looked at and there were some decent signs. As for the popping noise in the morning and evening that s a different mechanism. It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse.

I tried to brush him off for a while just telling him that it was house sounds. Clicking knocking and clanking. There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to. 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.

Popping is a common way to describe a variety of noises that a house makes and the causes are varied. The creaking sound is perfectly normal and is caused by the movement of roof timbers responding to changes in temperature. Day and night we hear loud cracking or popping sounds usually three or four in succession. At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds.

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. No that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic. The sun hits your roof and heats it up. Our house is making settling noises in the attic over the bedroom.