Popping Noise In 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 noise in attic.

A year or more ago a small adjacent attic portion was looked at and there were some decent signs. Our house is making settling noises in the attic over the bedroom. It s thermal expansion and contraction. Homeowner is dead set on the problem being from termite damage.

It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse. As the lumber expands it moves and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren t moving at the same rate. A homeowner was complaining of popping and cracking noises in his bedroom walls ceiling at night. Day and night we hear loud cracking or popping sounds usually three or four in succession.

While rodents and other critters can make a variety of noises the more likely cause is something else inside your home. 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. No that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic. 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. There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to. This movement creates the popping noise. What s that clicking noise in my attic at night.

I tried to brush him off for a while just telling him that it was house sounds. The creaking sound is perfectly normal and is caused by the movement of roof timbers responding to changes in temperature. A clicking noise in particular could be caused by your heater. Clicking knocking and clanking.

Our house was built 10. Those noises should decrease during the home s first year or so. The sun hits your roof and heats it up. 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.