Sounds In Attic Settling

Birds like to hunt for food in the morning.

Sounds in attic settling.

Skittering sounds squeaks buzzes and other noises coming from your walls and attic may mean there s something living in your house that isn t part of your family. The wood warms during the day losing moisture and shrinking slightly. It s probably your water heater where sediment has settled at the bottom of the tank then popped and bubbled as the water heats. That popping and bubbling sound isn t the wicked witch.

The most common noise inquiries we get from homeowners are concerns about sounds coming from the attic. Mice rats birds or other animals may have entered the home and are chewing digging and pecking on the interior of your home from the attic or inside the walls. Scratching sounds are the most common noises you will hear in your attic and unfortunately the hardest to link to a particular animal. Another primary and fairly mundane cause of random noises within a home is settling.

One problem that could be causing a popping sound in your walls or in the attic is pests. Animals may be scratching to make room for nesting burying food or even just walking and creating similar sounds. Fast moving scurrying noises are often rodents like squirrels or rats says bob. This is an immediate sign that birds are nesting within your home or business.

So if you hear noises when you first wake up you could have birds flying in and out of your attic. For an often lengthy period a house will creak and pop from time to time due solely to its own weight causing the soil beneath the house to compact thus allowing sections or even the entire house to sink slowly and minutely into the ground. When you hear noises in the attic during the early morning there are a few pests that could be to blame. In addition to bees ailion says raccoons squirrels and birds have been known to get into attics and cause noises of course mice and rats can do the same.

With bird habitats becoming more and more scarce around the u s these animals are beginning to find alternative options such as our homes. The noise you hear is not from settling but from wood framing members moving in relation to one another.