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Is our home falling down?!
Treacle_2-2
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Firstly apologies if I have put this in the wrong place!
We were woken up this morning by a gradual wood creaking noise very slowly travelling around the bedroom walls/floor - it's been going on for a good hour and a half now, just every few minutes a good few seconds of creaking. It has travelled along one wall and now is going along the back wall. Our home is a bungalow and the walls are cavity construction and the floors are partly of suspended timber joists and partly solid construction. We've been here nearly 3 years and never heard it before!
Is there any structural people able to advise please? I keep looking to see if there's any cracks in the walls yet - so I can grab my baby and run!!! Am I over-reacting? At the moment I feel like hubby will come home from work only to find the top two inches of the front door above ground!!!
Looking for some advise or reassurance please!! :-(
We were woken up this morning by a gradual wood creaking noise very slowly travelling around the bedroom walls/floor - it's been going on for a good hour and a half now, just every few minutes a good few seconds of creaking. It has travelled along one wall and now is going along the back wall. Our home is a bungalow and the walls are cavity construction and the floors are partly of suspended timber joists and partly solid construction. We've been here nearly 3 years and never heard it before!
Is there any structural people able to advise please? I keep looking to see if there's any cracks in the walls yet - so I can grab my baby and run!!! Am I over-reacting? At the moment I feel like hubby will come home from work only to find the top two inches of the front door above ground!!!
Looking for some advise or reassurance please!! :-(
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I dont know sorry, but sounds worrying. If you are worried maybe call your insurance company and see what they say, perhaps if they feel it is something to be concerened about they will call some one out to look at it?
I doubt it will fall down! How old is the property?Pawpurrs x
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It sounds like the sort of noises we get when we switch the central heating on in the morning. The pipes expand as they get hot and the sound we hear is the pipes creeping over the joists. Absolutely harmless.
Alternative explanations are also possible, but far less likely. Houses are built far stronger than they need to be to take the load, as people don't like it if the walls sway, floors bounce, etc. One the whole, large cracks can appear and the structure still stays up. That would be particularly the case with a bungalow.
The only thing that would worry me is if you are in a mining area or if the house is built on an old landfill site?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Go out and look at all the walls from a distance and see if they look ok. See if the roof is on straight.
It has been windy here last night - has it there?
Pull the carpets back and see if there's any gaps between wall and skirting that weren't there before.0 -
Yes, central heating produces some VERY scarey noises.
How old is the house itself? Which area is it in?0 -
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Maybe it has fallen down then :rotfl:0
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Glad you posted that hunter, just what I was thinking.:rolleyes:Pawpurrs x0
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Reminds me of when I was a kid I'd been left alone in the house. There was a really awful rumbling and rattling and I really thought our central heating was about to blow up so I absolutely legged it out over to my grans about 5 minutes away.
I stayed there listening to the radio with her for an hour before I heard on the news that there'd been an earthquake in Worcester! I was so relieved. And yes I did feel a bit stupid but it was the most scary thing that'd ever happened to me up to that point.
Houses make the most horrible noises sometimes.0 -
It does (hopefully) sound like the central heating playing up.0
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