Creaking Sound In Attic

The creaking sound is perfectly normal and is caused by the movement of roof timbers responding to changes in temperature.

Creaking sound in attic.

So scratching sounds in the attic at night could be from a number of different nocturnal animals. The wood warms during the day losing moisture and shrinking slightly. 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. There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to call.

Another primary and fairly mundane cause of random noises within a home is settling. It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse. 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. The only way for me to have full confidence would be to go into your attic and inspect all the locations where one piece of lumber is connected to another.

Fortunately it appears it s pretty easy. Anytime i try to go to sleep i would hear these very loud creaking sound and it s definitely getting to the point where it s getting more noticeable and definitely. The noise you hear is not from settling but from wood framing members moving in relation to one another. One problem that could be causing a popping sound in your walls or in the attic is pests.

At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds. Clicking knocking and clanking no that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic. Watch the video to discover why this happens and what can be done to prevent it. This can cause all kinds of inconsistent shifting and racking.

But most of the time it s an animal and it s pretty easy to tell when the noises are coming from something living.