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For what seems like months now we’ve been plagued by the occasional noise that sounds very much like a pressure release valve letting go. It’s a kind of squeak and a whoosh at random times though predominantly in the evenings.
It’s driven me mad wondering whether the gas, boiler or water pipes have an issue and I’ve been trying to track it down to no avail.
Turns out it’s a very odd low battery notification on my kids Nokia school burner phone. It was left on the kitchen counter this morning and went off when Mrs K lent over it to make toast.
MrsMC telling me all about her day at work in excruciating detail....
Possibly not what you were asking about
Children.
When (for no apparent reason) my tinnitus goes up to 11.
I'm sure one of my enemies has an evil remote control.
#withtinnitusyouareneveralone 😃
The dishwasher beeping to tell you it's finished. We put the dishwasher on last thing at night, so it finishes in the early hours and wakes me up with its wretched beeps.
I've had on/off tinitus for years, but I swear it's gone off the scale since Covid in late September.
Ernesto the rat in our roof space 🤣 Poor guy is going to have a shock soon when the landlord gets to it, but it can't go on and he's been waking us at night scrabbling about up there.
Weird low constant hum in our dormer bedroom.
After a few months I discovered it was wasps living in the wall.
To deal with them I had to lean out of the window three stories up and squirt wasp killing powder into the hole in the soffit where the wasps were coming and going, then quickly get out of the way!
I’ve had on/off tinitus for years, but I swear it’s gone off the scale since Covid in late September.
Same here 😔 the virus that just keeps giving.
I had one a while back, a periodic almost alien-sounding hissy whirr not dissimilar to the what the OP describes. It was a bloody air freshener.
We put the dishwasher on last thing at night, so it finishes in the early hours and wakes me up with its wretched beeps.
Don't do that, then? 😁 Does it not have a delayed start option? Some do.
The works laptop I carry around makes a sighing sound, like a single sad exhalation.
I can't bring myself to report it for fear of sounding loopy.
The howling noises I make whilst having a night terror but can do nothing to stop. Mrs D loves it :o)
Always on extractor fans in our new-build house.
Really irritated me until I realised they were all set to some 'adaptive speed' setting so were constantly changing fan speed slightly depending on outside conditions. Good idea in theory but means they never fade fully into background noise. Turned this off and now much better.
The animal (mouse, rat, squirrel) that runs above the lounge ceiling at night. Only one strip between a set of floor joists. It's between floors in a 30 year old house how does it get in there?
Tinnitus is frustrating.
Yesterday though was plagued by a metallic clunk and rattle in the van when I braked or turned L. Must have bugged me for over an hour of driving with me thinking of all the things that could be going wrong.
Got home and remembered I had put a stepladder in the back and it was sliding around...
I had a noise inside my living room wall that only became apparent when audio was playing above 70db, especially when the sub kicked in below 30hz, sounded like a rattle which was bloody annoying so I knocked a hole in the plasterboard from the hallway and found a loose electrical cable bouncing against the plasterboard, fixed the cable - left the hole, job done.
For those who used the word "tinnitus" - may boils infest your... .
My phone, I tried every option and it still makes infuriating beeping noises.
One of my guitars that randomly buzzes, can't find the cause beyond it's mechanical rather than electrical.
The vacuum cleaner, I just retreat into the garden when Madame starts.
A minor victory recently was the car. A rattling noise - I checked every thing in the glove box, under the dash, the doors and window mechanisms, the set belt mechanisms, the radio speakers... it was the crook lock I leave lying on the floor in the passenger footwell.
When my windscreen wipers reach the top of their arc and then drag before descending.
The dishwasher beeping to tell you it’s finished. We put the dishwasher on last thing at night, so it finishes in the early hours and wakes me up with its wretched beeps.
Don't do that, running appliances overnight is a cause of house fires, at least if you are awake you can react rather than only when the smoke sets the alarms off.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/11/kitchen-flames-domestic-appliances
@scotroutes - yep, but I'm at peace with it (apart from the ringing and humming obvs)
We put the dishwasher on last thing at night
With my slightly nerdy work head on, you’re much safer using things like washing machines and driers while you’re awake, there’s been quite a few fatal fires linked to using them while occupants are asleep.
Nerd mode off now! Yes the beeps are very irritating! My girlfriends fridge does it when you leave the door open and for added variety flashes it’s lights!
there is a clonk in the rear on my VWt2 i've stripped the suspension, changed the CVs and double checked all the inside furniture is all scewed down hard. i think its the oil filler spot knocking off teh rock and roll bed spaces under teh seat. but im not 100% sure. it may be the wheel bearing? - anyway its been driving me mad for at least 1yr now.
With my slightly nerdy work head on, you’re much safer using things like washing machines and driers while you’re awake, there’s been quite a few fatal fires linked to using them while occupants are asleep
Don’t do that, running appliances overnight is a cause of house fires, at least if you are awake you can react rather than only when the smoke sets the alarms off.
Aah - OK - makes sense. Need to re-think my dishwashing strategy then 🙂
I’m sure you’ll think me naive, and I admit there’s a small risk.
But I’ll happily keep going with overnight stuff (it’s a good time to be using electricity after all) mitigated by the four interlinked mains powered smoke, heat & CO alarms.
After all the fridge, freezer, boiler and router are staying on.
I do clean out the lint trap though. I’m not crazy.
Not my advice, it's in the link from the UK fire chiefs (maybe not exact title), was also told to us by the Surrey Fire Brigade when they visited to fit smoke alarms, and by a mate who's in the LFB.
And I listened and thought the same as you but did it anyway.
And then one day another mate told me how his dishwasher caught fire one night while they were in bed, how he and his girlfriend were rescued from an upper window by the fire service, and how the house was ruined and needed total renovation taking months while they lived in rented accommodation due to water and smoke damage. The smoke in particular was in everything, furniture, sofas, mattresses.....
Up to you though. I don't run anything like that when not in
My work mobile. Doesn't matter what I set the ring tone too, within a few days it really grates. Even upsets the dog.
There's a lint trap in a dishwasher? Amazing
Koalas grunting in the tree outside my bedroom in summer. Most unnerving.
My daughter's flute. She has managed to weaponize it.
Suirrels chirping and grunting in the trees as the males stake their territories. Less of a problem in recent years.
another vote for tinnitus..... 😠
Suirrels chirping and grunting in the trees as the males stake their territories. Less of a problem in recent years.
Aah – OK – makes sense. Need to re-think my dishwashing strategy then
Wash your dishes in the house of your enemy - Tsun Tzu
Our central heating seems to be have been constructedat the resonant frequency of the pump motor. At least we know its working. :/
The sound of people eating, if I end up in jail, it will be for murder of a noisy eater.
It's The Hum for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
Went through a period of hearing low frequency noise as I got into bed and was trying to sleep. Not constant, but a thrum, thrum, thrum. Super annoying. Two different houses, and I was the only one who heard it.
Seems to have stopped now, so no idea what it was.
Engine running or boot open bong from some ****er that lives behind us. Every day, several time a day. Just loud enough to be annoying but not loud enough to pinpoint.
When I was manager of our LBS, our head mechanic pulled out the bike that had been booked in for an annoying creak.
After a 4hour strip down and rebuild of this hideous bso, the creak remained.
Our man finally conceded and asked me to have a look. It took less than a minute to ask if he'd removed the prop stand.
A lesson on always looking for the simple things
Mrs B's silent sweep alarm clock. I can hear it amplified by the wooden shelf, but she can't
I scoured our house several times at night trying to find a pulsing sound. Turned out to actually be MY pulse, defective hearing and lying on my ear being the cause.
The dishwasher beeping to tell you it’s finished. We put the dishwasher on last thing at night, so it finishes in the early hours and wakes me up with its wretched beeps.
you can often turn these off with a sequence of button presses:
Rattles in cars drive me made. I had one for about 6 months I couldn’t find, sounded like it was coming from the dash on the passenger side. One day the rear view mirror fell off the screen and the noise stopped! Turns out that the plastic casing needs the occasional squeeze back together otherwise it starts to buzz.
Don’t do that, running appliances overnight is a cause of house fires, at least if you are awake you can react rather than only when the smoke sets the alarms off.
Mine’s 5 times cheaper to run in the middle of the night.
From what to what?
From what to what?
7.5p vs 35p/kWh.
I have no idea how much power the dishwasher or washing machine use though, which are the things we run at night.
about 20-30p per cycle based on what program you use, I just googled.
So saving you around 15-20p per day. Not insignificant, over a year. Also as someone pointed out another time I mentioned this, it won't stop your dishwasher malfunctioning and catching fire, with all the disruption that would cause.... it just means you wouldn't be asleep when it happens.
YMMV but fire terrifies me. Maybe that was the intent of the FS talk when they did the smoke alarms for us, particularly having a plan that we went through with the kids when they were little* so saving 15p against that fear is just not worth it to me.
* if they hear the smoke alarms at night, put their duvet against the gap at the bottom of the door and stay in their room, someone will come for them. I paid 'a fortune' for fire resistant doors upstairs, no plywood and cardboard up there. Doors are closed at night, etc. As the fireman said, far rather that than be searching a burning house for a kid that's overcome by smoke somewhere.
Doesn’t matter what I set the ring tone too, within a few days it really grates. Even upsets the dog.
Put it on vibrate and turn the ringer off.
"MrsMC telling me all about her day at work in excruciating detail…."
I used to get this when my better half came back from work from central London on the tube.
A problem fixed instantly by getting her a bike. She forgot about work issues within a couple of minutes of hitting the road, got home quicker and was much happier by the time she got to the front door.
I drove around for a week trying to identify the tapping / rattling sound coming from the dash board.
It was a DVD rattling in it's case in the glove box.
I scoured our house several times at night trying to find a pulsing sound. Turned out to actually be MY pulse, defective hearing and lying on my ear being the cause.
So you're definitely not trapped in an Edgar Allan Poe short story then?
Mine would simply be colleagues.
People eating crunchy things in the office with their mouths open.
I swear one chick does it on purpose. She eats popcorn daily. There's been times when I've just had to leave the office and go for a walk it affects me that badly. That, or bloody crunchy apples.
I've been at my Mum's helping with some decorating. My Mum is quite frail, can't move around the house very easily or quickly so she put a lot of the freestanding lights on timeswitches to save having to actually walk over and turn them on.
The constant clicking grating noise of those drives me insane.
I would expect the smoke alarm to notice a smoking dishwasher before me unless I was in the same room, and running it at night I'm less likely to be out at work/on bike/in the garage where I can't hear it and deal with it.
Noises...
When we moved into this house sometimes in the middle of the night there would be a quiet clattering/shimmering/squeaking noise that was sort of familiar. Couldn't really hear it if I left the bedroom...turned out to be the huge ferry a couple of miles away when it's docking, the noise must get reflected in the alley between my neighbours house and us, right where our bedroom is. As soon as I worked it out I remembered the absolute racket the ship makes when you are on it and it's manoeuvring in port, feels like the whole thing is going to shake itself to bits 🙂
For months we were hearing a very sporadic odd metallic ‘drilling’ noise when in the living room and it was quiet, noticed it every now and then for months. One day I happened to be looking out the upstairs window and heard it, noticed a woodpecker on next doors chimney ‘drilling’ away at their wood burning stove top cap. It never bothered me after that. The squirrel family in the loft of the new house however…
The Mrs snoring when she's had a drink.
Sounds like a force 10 through a pin hole.
It drives me potty!!
We have a zinc roof over the bedroom and tap dancing birds. Not little tippy tap birds but pterodactyls with clogs on.
Jazz
Modern cars and the selection of beeps and bongs they give out. drives me potty. Yes I know the keys are in the ignition and the door is open. I did that deliberately you annoying nagging noisy twerp
MrsMC telling me all about her day at work in excruciating detail….
This 👆 Made worse by the fact that it's essentially the same rant. Every. Single. Day!
A problem fixed instantly by getting her a bike. She forgot about work issues within a couple of minutes of hitting the road, got home quicker and was much happier by the time she got to the front door.
I don't miss much about commuting in London, but the 25/30 minutes of 'downtime' to unwind when riding home is one of those things.
The weird pc-sounding noise I can hear in the bedroom. It totally sounds like there's a desktop machine doing hard drive stuff in a cupboard or something.
(the only downside is that the spacers themselves cost a million quid each)
Does everybody at work count?
I don’t know are you in finance?
It’s The Hum for me:
Glad I’m not the only one. Used to suffer from the hum when I lived in manc and it used to drive me mad. Not so bad now I live up in the hills but it does reappear now and again. There’s a theory that it’s caused by the wind farms when the wind is blowing at just right speed and direction.
The random, nonexistent, noises that Mrs Seadog hears when driving the car.
To give her due regard, she had a childhood of crappy cars that rarely even completed the school run, so is paranoid of all things mechanical.
She will imagine the engine "sounds different", brakes "scraping and squeaking", AC "Not right".
The sky box. Had a bit of trouble sleeping last night due to my COVID cough. So went downstairs, so as not to disturb OH.
Pair of noise cancelling headphones with a dull audio book to try and snooze. I can still hear the thing through the headphones, faint whine, bastard.
I started turning the last one off at the wall. It then started sounding like the HDD was trying to make a bid for freedom and it stopped recording stuff.
Current freezer is now 8 years old and makes sounds like constipated terminator at totally random intervals through the day and night.
I guess it will self-destruct next time we are away on vacation like the previous one did.
Not such a weird noise but constant running engines... Used to have a neighbour who would sit in his car very late at night for ages with the engine running. The things I imagined doing to him and his car!
Thankfully we've moved away. Now there's a building site over the road, they're preparing the ground for an apartment block or something. As there's around 5 diggers and other machinery sitting around they have a guard there all night long in a little hut... with a generator for electricity... chugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchug
Random creaking on the turbo. It’s a wheel-on one; can I work our where the noises are coming from? Can I hell.