Advice Needed, pls - house humming and vibrating 3 years now - What is it?

FamilyHistoryMad

jellymid wrote: »

Gosh, you sound desperate.

There is a company near us, Derbyshire, called Acoustic Design Technology who are 'Noise and Vibration Consultants' www.acousticdesign.co.uk. They seem to deal with quite big projects so I don't know if they can help, but I'm sure it would be worth an e-mail. I don't know what part of the country you are in? I know someone who works there and I know they do night surveys with highly sensitive equipment.


Sleep deprivation is terrible - you have my sympathies. Good luck.

Thanks for replying and for the link
My mom has phoned a similar company and like you say they deal with big projects. Just to hire the recording equipment was going to be £700 + VAT and then the guys time. He was very helpful and went through all the things he would do to try and work out what was causing the noise. We had done everything he could think of except he suggested getting rubber put between the electricity meter and the wall. And putting rubber under the feet of the beds to try and stop it a little. We had the electricity people in and they said that the wood between the electricity meter and the wall was doing the same job.

Lack of sleep is terrible to deal with - I fully understand now why they use it as a for m of torture.

I've added emailing the company linked to our to do list.

Kind Regards
FHM

FamilyHistoryMad

bryanb wrote: »

Do you live near electricity generating station or transformer sub station? I don't understand the connecting bars to neighbours house?

Thank you for replying

There is one of those green electricity buildings a couple of streets away but the electricity board have checked it out for us and the hum/vibrating apparently is not coming from there.

When we had some work done on the roof years ago the roofer fixed two bars between our house and the neighbours - something to do with the scaffolding. when we first became aware of the noise we wondered if we were picking it up from the neighbours as we could still hear it even with our electricity turned off.

Kind Regards
FHM

oilit

you havent got a pump under the floor boards or anything like that - possibly to remove water/sewerage - most likely if you live in an area where your house is liable to flooding or where the waste has to be pumped to the sewer?

If you can feel it - it must be something vibrating against the structure or in the ground - yet you say you cant hear it outside. Think of thing sthat are on all the time - boiler? water pumps for heating/hot water?

or, have you upset the neighbours - maybe they are doing it to you to try to persuade you to move !!!!!

FamilyHistoryMad

asp746 wrote: »

although your neighbours say they're not experiencing it everyone's hearing etc is different. Are you able to ask if when you are able to hear it in your house if they would mind if you could go in their house to see if although they can't hear it maybe you can?

it sounds like a fridge is buried under the property or something - you know that kind of brrrr it makes.

it would drive me mad too. Keep up the research and i hope you find out what it is soon.

Thanks for replying

I really would like to ask if we can go into their houses and see if we can hear it. But it has taken awhile for people to take us seriously. We only know the neighbours to say hello to and a bit of small talk. It's bit difficult to say please can we come into your house to listen for noises - I don't know what I would think if someone said that to me when I have already told them there are no noises in my house. Still I think it needs to be done - I'll add it to the list...

it sounds like a fridge is buried under the property or something - you know that kind of brrrr it makes. - that is a perfect description! You forget sometimes, if you are upstairs you think the washing machine on a fast spin or there is a car idling outside the house.

Driving us mad doesn't cut it! (And equally I think we are driving the utilities people mad, too!)

Kind Regards
FHM

jfdi

http://www.paranormalsoup.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24916

Ley Lines?

FamilyHistoryMad

asp746 wrote: »

http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/abstracts/v18n4a2.php

this seems interesting.

Thank you for replying

I know the Hum is very interesting when you start reading about it but we have to believe that we can escape the noise/vibration soon. I am not sure how we would cope if we thought we would have to live with this forever (although there are worse things). I don't believe it is the Hum as there are three people in the house that can hear and feel it. So could the water guy when he came round. It would be a big coincidence given the stats re those in the population that can hear it - was 2% to 10% of population but four of us at our house (two of which are male and it is usual females that can hear the Hum apparently because female and male hearing ranges are different?)

Kind Regards
FHM

jfdi

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2001/oct/18/medicalscience.healthandwellbeing

Whatever it is it appears you're not alone!

Barneysmom

It sounds to me (oops) like it could be a water pump of some sort?
The big type that moves water from a (underground?) stream to a pond or storage area?
Being farmland there perhaps there's an old one nearby, could there be?
i'm grasping at straws.
I wish you lived near me in Staffordshire, I would love to pay a visit and see if I could help pinpoint it.
Is there any more you could tell us?

maninthestreet

If you can't cure this noise/hum, it may be possible to buy some 'noise cancelling' equipment, that emits sound at a wavelength and frequency that cancels out the background hum/noise.

msmicawber

Would this be of any help, FHM? http://noisemapping.defra.gov.uk/wps/portal/noise