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I'm sorry I don't mean to cause you anxiety. It's been really devastating. Cherish your well built home. If I could ever find a home like yours, I would NEVER LEAVE They are millions of flimsy wood chip glued cardboard boxes out there that have the false pretense of a house, like house of cards they are just made of Weak beams, plywood, flimsy insulation, flimsy siding and shabby roofing material that blows off in high winds or just rots away after a few years.
Gosh, somehow all (or the great majority anyway) the rest of us somehow got lucky? I have, in the last few years, spent time, (meaning at least 24 hours) in at least 8 different homes, and many more if you go back a few more years. I have never experienced a single one with the noises you claim are so common.
Roofing materials that rot away after a few years??? I don't know where you are looking at homes. Even the less expensive asphalt shingles will last 20 years.
How do you explain all the well built homes that the rest of us live in?
Gosh, somehow all (or the great majority anyway) the rest of us somehow got lucky? I have, in the last few years, spent time, (meaning at least 24 hours) in at least 8 different homes, and many more if you go back a few more years. I have never experienced a single one with the noises you claim are so common.
Roofing materials that rot away after a few years??? I don't know where you are looking at homes. Even the less expensive asphalt shingles will last 20 years.
How do you explain all the well built homes that the rest of us live in?
And shockingly houses have been made the same way in this country for 150 years at least.
Gosh, somehow all (or the great majority anyway) the rest of us somehow got lucky? I have, in the last few years, spent time, (meaning at least 24 hours) in at least 8 different homes, and many more if you go back a few more years. I have never experienced a single one with the noises you claim are so common.
Roofing materials that rot away after a few years??? I don't know where you are looking at homes. Even the less expensive asphalt shingles will last 20 years.
How do you explain all the well built homes that the rest of us live in?
My mom’s townhouse got reroofed last year. It was from 2003 and parts of the roof were rotting. This is in FL where it is super humid.
I’m more like the OP in that I have bad luck with noise. The last apartment was adjacent to the trash compactor that broke ALL. THE. TIME. At least once a month (usually on a Friday afternoon), I’d be subjected to the thing breaking and then grinding and pounding for 3-4 days before they fixed it. Then they had construction that lasted 9 months and I think something like 8-10 people on my floor moved out when their leases ended. It was unbearable.
The current place is mostly quiet, but the sump gets really loud when it is really working hard. It has the quiet check valve but still makes insane pounding noises when it goes. The heat and AC also make loud clanging noises when they turn on. I wear earplugs when I sleep, but there are still times when the heat or sump will wake me up. There are also random clanging noises at times from the pipes. Thankfully cleaning the AC coils did help a lot with that. When I moved in, it literally sounded like someone was ringing a gong every time it came on.
The earplugs they use for rifle ranges might help. The foam ones that you squish to place them and then they fill in all the space. At least you could get some sleep.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been wearing them for two years now. But for the past year, they've started giving me pulsatile tinnitus and I can't use them for more than a few hours per night. It helps when I can wear them, but it's not that often, unfortunately.
I'm dealing with popping sounds too. I've only been in my house for one year. The house is 50 years old and has a crawl space. I have to wonder if it's sinking into the ground because the soil stays saturated a good part of the year! I don't know if I'll be wanting to stay here long with the annoying and loud popping.
Gosh, somehow all (or the great majority anyway) the rest of us somehow got lucky? I have, in the last few years, spent time, (meaning at least 24 hours) in at least 8 different homes, and many more if you go back a few more years. I have never experienced a single one with the noises you claim are so common.
Roofing materials that rot away after a few years??? I don't know where you are looking at homes. Even the less expensive asphalt shingles will last 20 years.
How do you explain all the well built homes that the rest of us live in?
Some wood frame homes are BROKEN. That's all I know. It's not based on how cheap or expensive the house is. Some expensive homes are just as bad as the cheaper ones. It's either the wood (which is bad for construction), or something to do with changes in moisture cycles, the weather, or maybe foundation movements. In dry climates, nail pulling, truss uplift and shrinkage of framing are very common and can result in loud banging/popping noises. I've lived in enough number of homes to know that some have noises much louder and a lot more frequent than others, to the point of making the house unbearable. How the rest of you got so lucky? I don't know. I just know that even if a house doesn't have it, it could end up with this issue in the future. Not talking from my experience, been reading the experience of many other homeowners out there.
Just sharing the experience of a few UNLUCKY folks out there like me:
"I bought a mid 70's house in California a few months ago and have noticed that the ceiling makes "cracking" or "popping" noises -- especially late at night /early morning, but during the day as well.
It happens in most of the rooms and turning on the heat (or extreme changes in temp) exacerbates the problem. IS THIS THIS KEY? I have also noticed that I can apply pressure to the ceiling with my hands to "manually" make it "crack." The seller did not disclose to me that the house made these noises, and it wakes me and my baby up. https://www.diychatroom.com/threads/...noises.103501/
Thousands of others out there, just a quick search on the internet will enlighten the mind ... And just because the house doesn't make any noises right now, it doesn't mean it won't in the future
I'm dealing with popping sounds too. I've only been in my house for one year. The house is 50 years old and has a crawl space. I have to wonder if it's sinking into the ground because the soil stays saturated a good part of the year! I don't know if I'll be wanting to stay here long with the annoying and loud popping.
Sorry about your noise issue. I know how much it sucks, I've been dealing with it for 3 years now
Some wood frame homes are BROKEN. That's all I know. It's not based on how cheap or expensive the house is. Some expensive homes are just as bad as the cheaper ones. It's either the wood (which is bad for construction), or something to do with changes in moisture cycles, the weather, or maybe foundation movements. In dry climates, nail pulling, truss uplift and shrinkage of framing are very common and can result in loud banging/popping noises. I've lived in enough number of homes to know that some have noises much louder and a lot more frequent than others, to the point of making the house unbearable. How the rest of you got so lucky? I don't know. I just know that even if a house doesn't have it, it could end up with this issue in the future. Not talking from my experience, been reading the experience of many other homeowners out there.
Thousands of others out there, just a quick search on the internet will enlighten the mind ... And just because the house doesn't make any noises right now, it doesn't mean it won't in the future
There may be a FEW. That is far from the MILLIONS of poorly built homes that you are going on and on about. Of COURSE there are some ****ty-built homes out there. It's not difficult, at all, to find a well-built home. I don't need to "enlighten the mind". One can find an internet link for pretty much anything that one wants to claim, because somewhere, SOMEONE has tried to claim just about everything. Including being taken hostage by aliens.
And FWIW, these homes I have been in, most of them are 20+ years old. No issues. Nada.
I don't want to get distracted by the passive-aggressive types and have others miss the entire purpose of the post. This is what some people want, a distraction theater so the entire purpose of this post will be lost.
If you have any background in science or engineering, you would know that these noises are not EASY to fake and could only be produced by either the house moving, loose drywall, undersized ceiling joists, insufficient roof framing, nail pulling or the trusses.
These folks must be faking their rotting framing too because we build such top quality solid homes out of plywood and drywall that one can easily punch right through them with bare hands: https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...-20181115.html
There are no issues whatsoever associated to light weight wood construction, nothing to see here, no problems with fire and wind, structural issues, low durability, low thermal mass, shrinkage, compromised acoustics, high cost of maintenance, leaky roofs, termite damage, rotten wood, and so forth and so on ...
So must be this forum posted by some of the top structural engineers about Continuous LOUD popping/snapping noises from the structure of a wood frame home: https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=305096
And thousands of others, they are all fake, millions of search on google, because you don't have it in your home or never heard of it.
I'm sure there are a lot of smart people out there who can make up their own mind. Im Not here to convince anyone of anything. Just here to WARN, raise awareness and find some unfortunate folks like me who "are not as lucky as you", maybe had this issue and found a solution for it.
Again, I'm Warning those who want to relocate, there is NO WAY to know if a house makes these loud banging and popping noises, it will pass inspection, it looks GREAT on the surface, even solid, because the damage is invisible to the naked eyes.
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They are millions of flimsy wood chip glued cardboard boxes out there that have the false pretense of a house, like house of cards they are just made of Weak beams, plywood, flimsy insulation, flimsy siding and shabby roofing material that blows off in high winds or just rots away after a few years. 
