There is a strange ticking noise coming from my wall, what do i do?
Question:wait it stopped...no there it goes again...ahhhh
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do you think you maybe read the Edgar Allen Poe book about the heart beat under the floor and now your FREAKING OUT!!!, whats that? tick,tock,tick,tock
runnnnnnnn its a bomb!!
wake up
See if you cant find what it is, and if you can't contact the police via non-emergancy... if it is a bomb, (Which is unlikely) they will remove it.
I read a cool short story where this guy heard a 'death beetle' ticking in the walls of the house before his wife died...
but its probably just a water pipe or something.
That sound sometime is caused by change of temperature.
This sounds like (no pun intended), some form of insect infestation, possibly termites. I would check all the visible areas of wood for signs of the insects. Skirting board is a good place to start, pull up the carpet near the wall that is 'ticking' and check the floorboards assuming you have any.
Pest control in The Yellow Pages = next urgent task.
Could be a water pipe, or an air vent. If that side of the house gets direct sunlight, then it could be caused by the material in the wall changing temperature.
Is it cyclical or continuous? If is comes and goes, it could be a hot water pipe expanding and contracting as it heats up and cools down.
I drywalled my basement ceiling recently, and with the resulting additional heat retention, my hot water pipe now 'clicks' as it expands and contracts and rubs against the pipe hanger.
If it's relatively continuous, it could be a telegraphed sound from a natural gas or water meter. Some meters click as they register volume and sometimes, if conditions are right, those clicks can be heard in remote pipes or resonating surfaces connected to those pipes.
I heard one once it was a bare wire that mice had chewed on and it burnt down my house, kill the circuit breakers to that room and check it out quick
It could be a variety of things the one that really comes to mind (of course it depends on what kind of pipes you have) it a dripping of water on a copper pipe. I am not at your house so I don't know what it sounds like. But check your walls for moisture or wet spots. I could be a leaky pipe dripping.
It could also be a mouse or insect you might want to either try to catch the mouse yourself with a trap or call an exterminator.
If it's and exterior wall it could be something outside tapping when the wind blows.
These are just a few things that came to mind hope everything is okay. Best of luck!!
I too heard a strange but rather faint sound coming from a spot on my great room wall. Hearing it only when it was quiet & not all the time either just once in a while.
Since the area on the wall was not warm/hot, smelled no smoke, & my 2 dogs were still slumbering away I figured it wasn't an emergent situation . I put my ear to the wall & heard no frying & popping or scratching sounds; I still really wanted to know what it was & for it to be gone.
I walked around that wall of the greatroom & into the kitchen that backs up to it. I listened off & on to the sounds of kitchen when it was quiet & finally found the culprit.
I'd gotten a new side-by-side refrigerator that besides looking & working great was guaranteed to be quieter than my 6 yr old one. I opened the left-hand door & apparently was hearing the computerized defrost cycle when it came on. The refrig is fine & I don't even heard the tiny click any more.
Take the battery out of the clock
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