I was thinking the ticking heart of his vulture-eyed neighbor.
The air conditioning duct work in houses can make ticking sounds. In the winter, heated air causes the duct to expand along its length. When the heat cycles off, the duct slowly cools and retracts. Situation is reversed in the summer and it goes kcit, kcit, kcit instead of tick, tick, tick.
I vote for the cooling ductwork, as well, but hey, guys, I LOVED the Death Watch Beetle, and Mr Mooo’s conspiracies are a HOOT!
Have you heard about the world being HOLLOW, and we are reflectors of beams from crystals in space? I bet that would cause ticking–excuse me, MYSTERIOUS house-ticking!
When the sound transitions to TICK-TOCK…better move!
~VOW
What has four legs and ticks?
A Panda!
- Check inside a gas furnace. There is often a transformer there that can make noises. They carry throughout the house via the ductwork.
- Check the pipes by holding a glass to your ear with the rim against the longest visible pipe. All pipes vibrate and most are hung with metal straps at some point. Again, the sound can carry wherever there are pipes in the walls and floors.
- Some small transformers make noise. The “ground fault interrupt” box on the cord of my hairdryer will make clicks if I don’t unplug it after use.
- You say “house”, but if you lived in an apartment like I do, the ticking can come from the common areas. We recently had a lot of people complain about “rapping” at night. Tracked it down to the common hot water pump with a cracked impeller blade. $200 repair and everyone happy.
- In a house with an attic, check up there for something like a twig caught in the vent fan.
- In a house with steam heat, you have to bleed the radiators from time to time.
Wow. Seldom have I seen such a tight-fitting tinfoil hat. I have to wonder what you were searching for when you stumbled upon this thread.
- Bleeding the water heater to remove sludge can help as well. Just open the valve slowly with a hose attached or big bucket ready. And wear gloves, the faucet gets instantly hot.
I’m having some thoughts right now. I wonder if they’ll ever appear in a song.
Why yes, they already have. I guess you’re onto something.
Or stuffed sinuses, slowly draining.
Rick Santorum
Folks, the ticking sound doesn’t matter, we have bigger things to worry about now.
I had a weird sound recently in my house. Turns out it was the water our exterminator left running when he filled his tank to spray my back yard. You should really try to find it. Our wonderment about the sound cost us a $250 water bill.
Yeah, if the OP’s water has been running for 2 straight years, that could be pricey.
i have been hearing a series of clicking noises in my house for a long time and when i would go to where i would hear the noise there is nothing there that could possibly make the noise it seems to move around the house last night i heard the clicking noise right beside my ear twice and when i looked there was nothing there then i heard it behind me at the bedroom door then again in the bedroom as im from ireland i dont think we have the same insects to explain the noise that was the first time i heard it next to my ear as i was sleeping on the couch it couldnt have been an insect its freaking me out to be honest it has been happening on and off for a long time i took no notice till i heard it last night beside me im been honest no bullshit. as i was lying on the couch i fell asleep i was trying to fight off the sleep but i couldnt i just conked out didnt wake up till late if you like man i can send you my email address let me know…bonnell
In a similar thread, I thought the consensus was that the sound was due to an Annoy-a-tron.
bonnell777, I suspect you have tinnitus:
In the winter my house will frequently make a strange whooshing noise that seems to come from a closet, followed by a rushing wind noise that lasts for several minutes. It happens more often the colder it is outside.
Seriously, does anyone else find it funny that this thread has been resurrected twice with incoherent wall of text posts made by people who just registered and only posted once?
It’s the … asking to be used.
There was a thread resurrected in the same way, I can’t remember which one now.