Popping Noise In Attic

This movement creates the popping noise.

Popping noise in attic.

Our house was built 10. A year or more ago a small adjacent attic portion was looked at and there were some decent signs. As the lumber expands it moves and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren t moving at the same rate. The sun hits your roof and heats it up.

What s that clicking noise in my attic at night. 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. Our house is making settling noises in the attic over the bedroom.

I tried to brush him off for a while just telling him that it was house sounds. As for the popping noise in the morning and evening that s a different mechanism. No that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic. Popping is a common way to describe a variety of noises that a house makes and the causes are varied.

It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse. While rodents and other critters can make a variety of noises the more likely cause is something else inside your home. Clicking knocking and clanking. At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds.

A clicking noise in particular could be caused by your heater. If you have a faulty pilot light a problem with your gas valve worn bearings or even a problem with the. 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. Day and night we hear loud cracking or popping sounds usually three or four in succession.

A homeowner was complaining of popping and cracking noises in his bedroom walls ceiling at night. 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. Homeowner is dead set on the problem being from termite damage. There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to.