Noises in the wall

[Harry Bloomfield]

I get one single ding from my living room wall in the evening if the sun's been out. I'm assuming something metal is contracting after getting warm. Probably a wall tie or lintel.

I just accept it as a feature.

All houses, make their noises, mine certainly does, and they tell me the house is working perfectly normally. We used to get a drip, drip, drip noise, by the side of the front door. I traced that to heating pipes, which I boxed in, running down either side of the front door, expanding and contracting. That noise stopped when I fitted a new boiler and TRV's. I can just about hear the freezer compressor, when it runs in the utility room, but I often mistake it for a big diesel engine, ticking over on the nearby railway line, at the lights.

 

[camerart]

Hi,
I took out 3x bricks, and there were bits of sparrow nest, and farther up a sash weight jammed on a 45deg, and a few bits of cement wedged between the leaves, but to me nothing that would cause the noise. The damp area where the ticks are coming from is clean, and the noise is still there tonight.

I always had the idea that the damp patch may be condensation.

I know what expansion sounds like, but this doesn't sound like it, and as mentioned is not timed the same. The windows next to this wall have windows that click with expansion.

Anyway, it must be something, and most probably mentioned above.
Thanks, C

 

[Deluks]

Laminate flooring? Mine clicks from time to time

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Guttering can tick, especially if black but all colours can do it. Our nextdoor neighbour's guttering used to do it as soon as the sun came out. A regular ticking, presumably as it expanded past a bracket that was being pulled along for a bit then snapping back when it didn't want to bend any further.

If yours is doing this the sound may well be getting carried into the wall. If so spray/wipe the area around the brackets with PTFE spray.