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timepiececlockThat, or it creaks. Creaks something awful. Like, A COUPLE FRICKIN' TIMES A DAY.
What are these creaks like? Well, they sound more less exactly someone heavy-footed stepped on a creaky part of the floor. I've grown up with that sound all my life; my dad's a big guy so sometimes if he steps quickly a random floorboard creaks. This sounds exactly like that.
I am most definitely the only one in the house right now. And every other time this happens. Which is often.
Sometimes there's another sound, vaguely like the grinding clunk noise of a washing machine jiggling or something. I've since ruled that out as the sound of my neighbor getting into his outside shed-- the shed door makes about that sound.
But the creaking? No explanation yet. Since I heard it first a few months ago, I've come up with and dismissed various possibilities.
What would Scully say?
Outside noise or neighbor movement: comes from the wrong place in the hous to be that.
The icemaker in the fridge making noise: it never comes from the kitchen, usually the hallway. and the icemaker has a different sound, more clunk and cranking gears than floor creaking.
Wind somehow reaching down through the absurdly high roof to make the low ceiling creak: I would have bought this in our San Jose house, but here that's just silly. We don't get wind in Irvine. We get breezes. Breezes range from "dainty" to "brisk", but they're never in their wildest dreams going to wind. Especially not the kind of wind that makes houses creak.
Air conditioner making noise: This one seemed to hold for a while-- except that the air conditioner isn't on all the time. So cross that off the list.
Pipes and plumbing and/or hot water heater: Currently my favorite, though I have no idea why noises from the hot water heater might sound like weight falling on the floor in the hallway. And, I recently learned that this house doesn't have a crawlspace between the floor and the foundation/ground, like our last house did. Just cement. So how exactly would the pipes be making this noise loud enough for me to hear it? Dunno. Also rules out the possibility of anything living under the house making the noise.
What would Mulder say?
I'm being haunted: by a heavy-stepping person who seems to like walking in the hallway. Or randomly jumping just once to make noise and then stopping, just to frustrate me.
someone's crashing at my house with an invisibility cloak (tm HP) or an SEP Field (tm Douglas Adams): My parents obviously don't notice because they dismiss it as "Somebody Else's Problem", and unfortunately I'm the lucky SEP recipient.
The house is alive: and apparently is doing one of two things: A) expressing its love for me though creaky non-threatening noises for my ears alone, or B) slowly trying to drive me nuts very very slowly through inane frustration and really random annoyance factor.
I'm making it creak subconsciously through telekinesis: because... well, fuck if I know why I'd do something like that.
Oh well. I'll only be living here until August, then they can have it's creaking walls all to themselves.
What are these creaks like? Well, they sound more less exactly someone heavy-footed stepped on a creaky part of the floor. I've grown up with that sound all my life; my dad's a big guy so sometimes if he steps quickly a random floorboard creaks. This sounds exactly like that.
I am most definitely the only one in the house right now. And every other time this happens. Which is often.
Sometimes there's another sound, vaguely like the grinding clunk noise of a washing machine jiggling or something. I've since ruled that out as the sound of my neighbor getting into his outside shed-- the shed door makes about that sound.
But the creaking? No explanation yet. Since I heard it first a few months ago, I've come up with and dismissed various possibilities.
What would Scully say?
Outside noise or neighbor movement: comes from the wrong place in the hous to be that.
The icemaker in the fridge making noise: it never comes from the kitchen, usually the hallway. and the icemaker has a different sound, more clunk and cranking gears than floor creaking.
Wind somehow reaching down through the absurdly high roof to make the low ceiling creak: I would have bought this in our San Jose house, but here that's just silly. We don't get wind in Irvine. We get breezes. Breezes range from "dainty" to "brisk", but they're never in their wildest dreams going to wind. Especially not the kind of wind that makes houses creak.
Air conditioner making noise: This one seemed to hold for a while-- except that the air conditioner isn't on all the time. So cross that off the list.
Pipes and plumbing and/or hot water heater: Currently my favorite, though I have no idea why noises from the hot water heater might sound like weight falling on the floor in the hallway. And, I recently learned that this house doesn't have a crawlspace between the floor and the foundation/ground, like our last house did. Just cement. So how exactly would the pipes be making this noise loud enough for me to hear it? Dunno. Also rules out the possibility of anything living under the house making the noise.
What would Mulder say?
I'm being haunted: by a heavy-stepping person who seems to like walking in the hallway. Or randomly jumping just once to make noise and then stopping, just to frustrate me.
someone's crashing at my house with an invisibility cloak (tm HP) or an SEP Field (tm Douglas Adams): My parents obviously don't notice because they dismiss it as "Somebody Else's Problem", and unfortunately I'm the lucky SEP recipient.
The house is alive: and apparently is doing one of two things: A) expressing its love for me though creaky non-threatening noises for my ears alone, or B) slowly trying to drive me nuts very very slowly through inane frustration and really random annoyance factor.
I'm making it creak subconsciously through telekinesis: because... well, fuck if I know why I'd do something like that.
Oh well. I'll only be living here until August, then they can have it's creaking walls all to themselves.
