Much like me, this old house creaks,

I've been saying for a couple of decades now, "The snap, crackle and pop you hear is not Rice Krispies"! My left knee has been popping (out of joint, it feels like) since I was about 37 years old. At first it was extremely painful and I had to use a cane for a while. Over the years the pain went away, but if I don't do knee exercises, that knee gets weird again. When it feels like it's shifting out of joint, I just ball my fist up like a mallet, hit the side of my leg and I'm good to go.
 

Rae said:
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.
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same here, my house is 70 years old, solid brick....but the stairs are wooden as are all the floors upstrais, and so they creak when I walk on them some more than others, and the every one of the stairs creas as I go up and down, despite being covered in thick underlay and carpet...so at night as the house coolls down there are creaks from every part of the house except downsairs where th floors are cocncrete covered with tile...

Also when the central heating is switched off theat also creates the odd creak ....
 
Remy said:
You didn't get another cat?
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I waited a few months and I did get a cat from the shelter. A beautiful, healthy sweet girl. Within a month she was dead. She wouldn't leave the corner of the living room. At firt she tried and I would watch her run away from the hall. I moved her litter anf food an water into the lr. I am a vet tech so I took he in to be checked. She didn't make it. As long as I live here there will be no more pets.
 

dusty said:
I waited a few months and I did get a cat from the shelter. A beautiful, healthy sweet girl. Within a month she was dead. She wouldn't leave the corner of the living room. At firt she tried and I would watch her run away from the hall. I moved her litter anf food an water into the lr. I am a vet tech so I took he in to be checked. She didn't make it. As long as I live here there will be no more pets.
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I am so sorry you had to go through that twice! I adopted tabby sisters a month after my darling passed, but if I could do it over, I might have waited; I hadn't properly grieved.
 
Really sorry, that’s so sad. No cats any more but couldn’t live without my dogs.
Our house up on the moors is old, the date on the stone lintel over the door is 1535. The floors are a mixture of stone & creaky old oak so along with those & the more or less constant wind that groans round the eaves it has a character all of its own really.
 
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