Much like me, this old house creaks,

[hawkdon]

and groans and makes some strange damn noise's..!! And it has gotten worse this
winter, maybe due to being so danged cold this year....sometimes I'll jump out
of my bed or my chair because I hear an unfamiliar sound and start looking for
the cause, but never find anything!!?? How bout your home???

 

[Ruthanne]

I hear things from my neighbors. I'm in an apartment. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the noises come from. We're all piled in this place.

 

[Rae]

I have noise with the floors in my house when walking on them. I have more noise with my ice maker, especially in the night. I sometimes wake and wonder but that is the cause.

 

[Trish]

Sometimes, we hear the foxes at night but, other than that, it is very quiet. I used to live in a old house and, like your home, I often thought someone was coming up the stairs or walking about in one of the other rooms but, no, just the old house groaning!

 

[dusty]

I too am in an apt and I rarely hear my neighbors. During the night I do feel the cat jump up on the bed and lie down beside me, purring. I put him to sleep in 2019.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

and groans and makes some strange damn noise's..!! And it has gotten worse this
winter, maybe due to being so danged cold this year....sometimes I'll jump out
of my bed or my chair because I hear an unfamiliar sound and start looking for
the cause, but never find anything!!?? How bout your home???

I think most of the noises come from wood shrinking and expanding due to weather changes. We have hardwood in our house and sometimes it sounds like someone is walking on it when there’s nobody there. We have a dehumidifier going in the basement during summer, spring and fall and a couple of humidifiers going during the winter time. We have an air exchanger which adjusts the humidity also but our house still creaks some here and there and now and again.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Most of the noises I hear at night comes from my stomach. I have a loud stomach. It'll make noises like somebody is moving around my place. Once it started up at a movie theater, and people thought it was me ( my voice) trying to ruin the movie.

 

[Jules]

I think most of the noises come from wood shrinking and expanding due to weather changes.

This will be the reason, @hawkdon.

 

[Jules]

For years we will be sitting in the open plan living room and sometimes hear a ding from the kitchen. We’ve wondered what might be happening with our fridge. Today I was standing there and heard it from the plugged-in landline. It said charging. It’s right across from the fridge,

 

[Pepper]

I too am in an apt and I rarely hear my neighbors. During the night I do feel the cat jump up on the bed and lie down beside me, purring. I put him to sleep in 2019.

I too have cat ghost stories

 

[Aunt Bea]

My old apartment building has all sorts of strange and familiar sounds.

I have an old cherry table that will let out a loud crack every now and then as the moisture in the air changes.

None of it bothers me as long as I can identify the source.

 

[Kadee]

I live an area that was a newly established land subdivision at the time when we purchased our block in 2004

Many homes have been built by a local builder who uses steel framers rather than wood framed as our home is
( homes are 99% brick veneer here )

which is brick cladding and gyprock walls .

Anyway the steel framed homes creak and grown and crack with changes in temperatures , some have sold homes because of it keeping them awake at night.

 

[Michael Z]

 

[Twostep]

and groans and makes some strange damn noise's..!! And it has gotten worse this
winter, maybe due to being so danged cold this year....sometimes I'll jump out
of my bed or my chair because I hear an unfamiliar sound and start looking for
the cause, but never find anything!!?? How bout your home???

It is talking to you and you are not listening.

 

[Meanderer]

THIS OLD HOUSE by STUART HAMBLEN

 

[jujube]

The refrigerator that we had up until last month made sounds like someone in the throes of...uh....vigorous amorous activities. Much moaning and sighing.

I would tell overnight guests, "If you hear anything in the night that doesn't sound like snoring or a toilet flushing, it ain't us!"

Now we have a new refrigerator that, if it wants to sound like it's having a lot of fun, at least waits til we are out of the house....

 

[carouselsilver]

I too am in an apt and I rarely hear my neighbors. During the night I do feel the cat jump up on the bed and lie down beside me, purring. I put him to sleep in 2019.

Someone else lost their cat

I too have cat ghost stories

Me, too. I had to put down my beloved cat in 2019 as well. Broke my heart! I still feel a phantom cat purring and kneading at the foot of my bed. My current two don't seem to mind sharing.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Tommy]

Our current home is heated by oil/hot water baseboard heat. After a lifetime of having virtually silent natural gas/forced air heat and totally silent electric/baseboard heat, the sounds made by this heating system are really obnoxious.

Our 100+ pound dog patrols the house at night and if anyone were to even come near the house he'd let us know.

 

[Meanderer]

How Old Is This Old House?​

"Property records don’t go back far enough to date some houses. But experts can pinpoint a house’s age by studying tree-ring patterns in the house’s timber." READ MORE

A self-described history nerd, Ian Stewart suspected his old farmhouse in Ghent, N.Y., may have been built by a member of an esteemed New England whaling family as early as the late 18th Century. The truth turned out to be a tad deflating.Credit...Tara Donne for The New York Times

 

[hawkdon]

The house I'm renting was built in 1955 according to assessor
records.....

 

[Remy]

I too am in an apt and I rarely hear my neighbors. During the night I do feel the cat jump up on the bed and lie down beside me, purring. I put him to sleep in 2019.

You didn't get another cat?

 

[Meanderer]

What are common problems of 1950s houses?

The Fabulous ‘50s

"Homes of each era are reflections of the attitudes, technology, and aspirations of their time, and the consumer trends of the decade shaped the unique characteristics of the 1950s home. The end of World War II and return of millions of military veterans in the late 1940s set the stage for a surge of home building."

"The huge demand for housing created by the postwar baby boom, along with a popular affinity for everything futuristic, and success of early large scale housing developments, like the famous Levittown in Long Island, New York, all influenced home designs."

Here’s some characteristics of a 1950s house:

 

[hawkdon]

This house is not the style as shown in that article....the living
room is loooong, and abt 14 ft wide, kitchen is 20ft long and
same width, 2 br but barely able to qualify as such, bath is
the 5 x 8 variety, zilch closet space except for hall closet....all
one level...

 

[seadoug]

Our house is almost 30 years old and although solid brick I occasionally hear "pops" coming from somewhere outside when I'm sitting in the family room. I never noticed them before. The house probably doesn't know whether to shrink or expand since we've been going from the 70's to the 20's on a week-by-week basis. The door to the courtyard, installed 7 years ago, wouldn't lock when we hit our first cold spell. When it warmed up, easy peasy. Now it locks even when it's cold. I think it gave up!