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View submission: Knocking and banging in house
Did you recently move into this space? Did it just get cold enough for the heat to kick on? Option 1 below might be the culprit. I have a couple other options too - if they have already been suggested I apologize:
1. it’s the heating pipes - they expand and contract as the heat goes on and off - they make knocking noises - pipes travel from the basement to the top floor of the house. If the knocking happens in the basement it can be heard all through the house and if the knocking happens in the attic, it can be heard all through the house. It’s very hard to tell where it’s coming from. If the pipes are touching each other or touching floorboards/etc it makes knocking noises as it expands and contracts. When we first moved in the basement pipes had little dried kitchen sponges between pipes that were actually touching. Not knowing what it was for we quickly removed them. Then in the winter we wondered what the knocking was. And in hindsight realized what those sponges were for and replaced them. We can’t access all knocking occurrences because some of them happen within walls so we just live with it. Hope this helps. Or . . .
2. Shrubs/bushes too close to the house brushing up against the siding/bricks. My daughter once complained about a squirrel scratching at her window all night: it was a branch of a tree that had grown close enough to touch the house. Or . . .
3. Check any wires that come to or leave the house and make sure they’re fastened to the house in a way where they don’t knock against anything.
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