So if you hear noises when you first wake up you could have birds flying in and out of your attic.
Popping noises in the attic.
When you hear noises in the attic during the early morning there are a few pests that could be to blame.
No that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic.
Also when the temperature becomes very hot or very cold or when sunlight warms one part of a home and not another these noises may become more pronounced.
In new homes roof trusses or the wood used to frame the attic often is green meaning it still has a high moisture content as it dries it can shift and contract triggering bangs loud enough to make you think a tree fell on the roof.
The creaking sound is perfectly normal and is caused by the movement of roof timbers responding to changes in temperature.
You might be able to save the water heater by draining it to flush away.
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.
Those noises should decrease during the home s first year or so.
As for the popping noise in the.
Popping in the morning and evening is thermal expansion.
The wind is flexing the rafters or trusses.
It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse.
Birds like to hunt for food in the morning.
At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds.
Wall or attic sounds.
If you hear gurgling or popping noises coming from your water heater that means it s struggling to operate and might soon fail most likely because sediment has built up around its coils.
Clicking knocking and clanking.
If your house is giving you the creeps because of popping noises from inside the walls and up in the attic you can probably chalk it up to something other than spirits from beyond the grave.
Scratching or scurrying from within a wall or ceiling.
Fortunately it appears it s pretty easy to get around up in your attic because it s a steeper roof and it was common framed instead of using prefabricated trusses.
Roof popping noise can be caused by the wind.
A loud popping noise in the attic is often very common especially when there are extreme temperature differences such as large and rapid fluctuations between night and day temperatures.
Day and night we hear loud cracking or popping sounds usually three or four in succession.
Who s making noises in my attic in the early morning.
Our house is making settling noises in the attic over the bedroom.
