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So I'm home alone this week so the place is pretty quiet. Now I've noticed this sound before but there's always been something else to distract me.
Sound like a pump running so went round turning various things off, fridge etc, noise still there so turned off the main power supply to the house so nothing else running and no laptops on. It's still bloody there.
So aside from some alien activity in middle earth what is it? Only thing I can think of the the main power supply coming into the meter. It's driving me nuts.
Has a neighbor installed an air conditioning unit?
Look in your wife's secret draw.
[i]Look in your wife's secret draw. [/i]
Beat me to it.
Bristol has / had a "hum" , referenced here: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html
I've certainly heard it, it's kept me awake at night in the past.
Secret dub club in the cellar?
[i]Has a neighbor installed an air conditioning unit?[/i]
Doubt it as I live in the west of Scotland.
Modern house, no cellar. Not one I'm aware of anyway
Is your next door neighbour a complete throbber?
Have a look for a Vauxhall Corsa with LED lights, a sound system that fills the boot, and a 17 year old driver, under the floorboards.
I've lost count of the number of times it's happened to me.
It's all in your head and it's caused by WiFi signals. I sell some bracelets with holograms that absorb the nasty 1 bits leaving the lovely calm 0 bits through. £10, PayPal Gift....
Lots of pumps in houses - fridge, central heating, ventilation unit etc.
Kryton isn't in the kitchen using your microwave to heat up some pudding is he?
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[i]Lots of pumps in houses - fridge, central heating, ventilation unit etc.[/i]
All of which, and the wifi, don't work when the main power supply to the house is switched off.
Got some music on now so it's gone
Are you sure it's in the house? Local windfarm or agricultural machinery?
In all seriousness, I had this as well.
Turned out to be the noisy hard drive in the SKY+ box spinning up and down as it constantly records the last half hour of TV to allow the live pause function to work.
Turn off ALL the power at the consumer unit and see if it stops.
[i]Are you sure it's in the house? Local windfarm or agricultural machinery?[/i]
No, but I can here it clearer in the utility room which backs onto the meter cupboard.
Wind farm is 10 miles away.
What I need is a power cut in the local area.
[i]Turn off ALL the power at the consumer unit and see if it stops.[/i]
Already done.
No, but I can here it clearer in the utility room which backs onto the meter cupboard.
Have you stuck your head IN the meter cupboard?
I have the same (previous thread somewhere). Still there, drives me slightly mad sometimes. Council have a noise team who have offered to investigate but it wasn't happening when they came round. Nothing electrical as have switched everything off. There's a mains water pump 50m away from the house but "working as expected" from their report. Whether "working as expected" means an acceptable level of noise, I don't know. Its a real shame - we moved here because its so quiet except the "ssshhhhhhhhhh" of the river. The hum kinda sh'ts on that peace and quiet when its going about 50% of the time.
Yes but I'd need to pull the freezer out to get to the meter but I'm slightly incapacitated at the moment.
Have you got a NAS? One of the drives in mine makes a really deep periodic wooom-wooom-wooom noise that nobody else seems to hear.
No but [b]all the power has been turned off[/b] at the consumer box.
If your powers turned off your freezer will be off. stick your head in the meter cupboard and see if the noise is louder.
Go outside and have a sniff.
Neighbours got "green fingers"?
are you near farmland? From Google maps I think there's a farm - or something - about 100m away from our door but its over the fence, through the river, up a steep bank and beyond which I haven't got round to looking in to. If its not the water pump nearby, I'm guessing they may have a generator.
Can anyone else hear it? Had your blood pressure checked lately?
Yes, on Wednesday.
[i]If your powers turned off your freezer will be off.[/i]
Really? I didn't know that
We had this in our house, noticed it not long after moving in, eventually identified the source as being the electricity meter in the hall. Not noticed it much recently, I've either got used to it or the dog's snoring is drowning it out!
Did it sound like a loud PC fan running The Beard?
Strangely since jimmy's last thread on this topic we also now have The Hum in the flat. Most noticeable late at night on still nights when all is quiet, annoyingly loud when I go to bed. Some nights is does stop, guessing it is a generator somewhere.
I've had this before now and it's turned out to be the local farmers doing farmy stuff in their fields around by us.
Is it continual, only noticeable at certain times of day or fades in & out quite quickly?
Could it be high altitude transatlantic aircraft flying over? I believe they head up your way before turning Statesward.
A neighbour said he had similar and turned out to be his old style (on a new build) gas meter which was replaced and now OK.
Hmm, an old meter can make a noise.
i've had low frequency tinnitus in the past, so bad i was getting out of bed to see why there was a lorry idling outside 😯
found it really really frustrating for a while - do you work in noisy environments (or listen to headphones really loud?)
It's continual, gas meter is outside and newish. I'll have a listen at that but unlikely.
Sound never changes, constant thrum but in a cycle if you know what I mean.
As its constant I'm ruling out planes, trains & automobiles.
[url= http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/midshipman-fish-droning-mating-call-2486013 ]Horny fish?[/url] 😀
As above, give the gas meter a listen, mine was surprisingly loud.
are you on mains water? try turning the mains power off again and then turn off the mains water at the external stop cock
we had a leak at the stopcock that was vibrating the incoming mains cold water pipe and created a noise (that's how we identified the problem as, thankfully, the mains water was undercutting the car park and not the building foundations.)
It took a couple of weeks to identify/rectify and the damage tot eh car park was significant.
I had this in my house. Could only ever hear the humming late at night when it was quiet, or so I thought.
Tracked it down to the "off peak" electricity meter thingumy. It comes on at 11pm and off at 7am (ish), which was why I could not hear it during the day.
Oh, and turning off the power makes no difference - I think the consumer unit is after the meter......(not an electrical expert, so preparing to be flamed...)
I turned off the main switch on the consumer unit then the switch between meter and board. Noise still there.
As its constant I'm ruling out planes, trains & automobiles.
Ship engine? Are you anywhere near the sea? The noise from these can propagate quite far
However, I'd bet it is more likely a noise source that's inside the house. The house's structure will attenuate external noise by a considerable amount. So for an external source to be audible inside, it would likely be pretty loud outside.
I can see there is the potential to have exceptions though, e.g. when outside the problem noise source is masked by other noise sources outside, but once inside the 'masking' sources are attenuated by the building structure but problem source isn't and you hear it. All depends on the frequency spectrum content of the noise sources and if the building has sound insulation weaknesses at a particular frequency
I think it's sinkhole.
Do you have an alarm system? Power being off would take a while to drain from the alarm...
[i]Do you have an alarm system? Power being off would take a while to drain from the alarm[/i]
Ah there's a thought. I'll unplug the battery and try it.
Could it be [url= http://viz.co.uk/vibrating-bum-faced-goats/ ]vibrating bum-faced goats?[/url]
impending sinkhole disaster about to unfold?
I had this a few months ago just before I moved house. It was still there in my new house. I went to the doctor who stuck a torch in my ears and said 'get them syringed' which did the trick 🙂
West of Scotland
one of these maybe, in the sewers..
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Under or close to overhead powerlines?
^ The subs do get blamed for all sorts of odd marine animal behavior round the Gare Loch...
[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum ]Have you never heard of the hum?[/url]
I'm a fellow sufferer so you have my sympathies. Sometimes it's so bad I can't get to sleep. I also did all the searching, turning the power off etc and it was still there so it's either in my head or coming from outside. My main suspicion is the wind turbines which are on the top of every hill round my way.
No powerlines but some interesting reading in the link. Does sound like a Diesel engine in the distance but with a sort of reverberation.
Can't hear it outside but there are too many other sounds going on.
We had an odd beeping noise. A single muffled beep every 10 seconds. It was only audible when the house was silent but then it was enough t keep me awake. I spent ages turning everything off, went through the loft in case it was something battery operated and was a low battery warning. Eventually put an ear to the right bit of dividing wall (we live in a semi) and located it next door. Neighbours on holiday for 4 weeks, they came back and it stopped. I think it was an answering machine or something as I have heard it since. If we actually spoke to them I'd have given them an earful!
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[b]dazh[/b], put a set of these on:
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If you can still hear it, it's in your head 🙂
EDIT: I should also add that I'm being serious and if you do still hear the hum the likely cause is Tinnitus. Putting your hands over, or fingers in, your ears won't work as your hands will still move slightly and make noise.
My next door neighbour (we share a wall) pointed out a noise that sounds like someone snoring, coming from our shared chimney breast. Now I can hear it too. Bugger!
We get something similar. I reckon its the neighbours sticking the washing on overnight. I'm in a midterrace. So ymmv.
How's the knee?
Could it be the wind resonating across the top of the chimmney pot? Like a milk bottle flute type thing?
It'll be the borrowers, river dancing .
Well no one else in the house can here it so must be in my head.
Knee's a bit on the sore side today Steve. Took the dressing off and showed Susan the horror beneath, she was horrified! Thanks for asking.
The pic did the rounds at work! Hope you have a quick recovery.
Nice!
Bit late but got to ask..
Is my Mum around your place ?
She hums a lot..
We occasionally get something like it.
We're only a couple of miles from the oil terminal on the Mersey and you can sometimes hear and feel the oil tanker engines when they leave them ticking over.
They really need some of those VW Bluemotion tankers.
Dunno, I'll have a look round. Could you give a brief description so I know what to look for.
My next door neighbour (we share a wall) pointed out a noise that sounds like someone snoring, coming from our shared chimney breast. Now I can hear it too. Bugger!
My wife says exactly the same thing about our spare bedroom! I can't hear it.
Dunno, I'll have a look round. Could you give a brief description so I know what to look for.
A really big boaty type thing, probably sitting on water of some sort.
Well no one else in the house can here it so must be in my head.Knee's a bit on the sore side today Steve. Took the dressing off and showed Susan the horror beneath, she was horrified! Thanks for asking.
prescription painkillers?
Nah just paracetamol.
