The problem: A gas-fired hot water heater works pretty much like boiling a pot of water: A fire is lit and the water inside is heated until it’s ready for use. I hear a bubbling (or cracking) sound coming from the water heater. After pests have been removed, make sure vents and chimneys are securely covered with a grille or mesh chimney cap so those spaces can still breathe. To keep raccoons away, put garbage in sealed, secured metal cans that can’t be tipped.
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(Call in a pro if the animal is stubborn or large.) Finally, prevent the problem from reoccurring by sealing up the entrances to your house with steel wool, metal sheeting, caulk, and/or hardware cloth.
The solution: As soon as you suspect an intruder, get on it: Set traps or a bat repelling system. Some animals will tear up insulation to nest, or chew through siding or even electrical wires, causing fires. In the Southwest, the droppings of mice can spread hantavirus. “Any kind of wild critter could be up in the attic,” he says.Īnd these freeloaders aren’t just a nuisance bats can carry deadly rabies. You may have mice, squirrels, raccoons, or even bats sharing your quarters, says Richardson. The problem: If you hear strange noises like scratching and possibly chittering coming from places where no human or beloved pet lives in the house, you probably don’t have ghosts. There’s a strange and spooky scratching sound coming from behind the walls. The solution: Get a repairman out to check on it, pronto. If you hear knocking or clanking, typically located at the boiler itself, it might be a sign of impending failure of the circulator pump, he says. The circulator pump or pumps to the system, however, “should be silent when they run,” says Kuhn. With a baseboard hot-water system, you can also expect “normal clinking and knocking,” says Kuhn. The problem: When most homeowners first turn on their heating system in the fall, they’ll often hear a little moaning and groaning as the heating system expands and rubs against the frame of the house, says Mike Kuhn, the New Jersey owner of a HouseMaster inspection service and coauthor of The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Home Inspections. What is that clanking sound when we turn on the heat? Read on to find out how 11 spooky house sounds are diagnosed and how each can be resolved. We asked the experts to catalog some of the more worrisome pops, hisses, groans, creaks, and knocks and tell us what they mean and how they can be remedied. If your home is making noises that make you jump in the night (or sounds that rival Metallica’s greatest hits), then it may be sending you signals that there’s a problem. They’re built of many different materials-glass, concrete, wood-that expand and contract at different rates, causing friction that results in those odd spooky sounds.īut still, “The most noise your house should make is a popping sound, like your knuckles cracking, and only once in a while,” says Bill Richardson, former president of the American Society of Home Inspectors and owner of Responsive Inspections in Bosque Farms, New Mexico.
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