Please help!!
I live in a converted grade II listed property and occupy the ground floor.
I had lived in the property for 3 years with no problem but last year a constant ticking/tapping noise that goes all around my property when the residents upstairs have their central heating on started....and it doesn't stop unless their heating is off!!
It is so loud that I can't even watch my tele without hearing it. It has got to the stage where the noise feels like a form of torture and is making me ill. If their heating is on for 8 hours the noise doesn't subside and I hear it constantly for 8 hours!!
The residents can also hear the noise but it is not nearly as loud as in my property.
I have read other threads that say it could be pipes expanding, but would this noise continue for hours on end until the bolier goes off?? If it was expanding pipes knocking against other pipes/floorboards would the noise not subside when a certain temperature is reached?
The noise literally starts from the moment their boiler goes on and stops instantly when the boiler is switched off. (Surely if it was to do with temperature and expanding pipes it would take a while to stop because the pipes would take time to cool down??)
Please help...I can't take much more!! Thank you
I live in a converted grade II listed property and occupy the ground floor.
I had lived in the property for 3 years with no problem but last year a constant ticking/tapping noise that goes all around my property when the residents upstairs have their central heating on started....and it doesn't stop unless their heating is off!!
It is so loud that I can't even watch my tele without hearing it. It has got to the stage where the noise feels like a form of torture and is making me ill. If their heating is on for 8 hours the noise doesn't subside and I hear it constantly for 8 hours!!
The residents can also hear the noise but it is not nearly as loud as in my property.
I have read other threads that say it could be pipes expanding, but would this noise continue for hours on end until the bolier goes off?? If it was expanding pipes knocking against other pipes/floorboards would the noise not subside when a certain temperature is reached?
The noise literally starts from the moment their boiler goes on and stops instantly when the boiler is switched off. (Surely if it was to do with temperature and expanding pipes it would take a while to stop because the pipes would take time to cool down??)
Please help...I can't take much more!! Thank you