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new house loud noise?

  • 06-04-2010 8:03am
    #1
    giardiniera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭


    hey, we've just finished building and have been living in the house for 8 weeks or so. The house is making really loud popping/cracking noises. not often but they are very loud when it happens. is this just the house settling or does anyone have any ideas. its mainly in the roof between the sitting room and one of the bedrooms but they are very loud at times.


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  • #2
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    no way of knowing without being there i am guessing but I live in a timber frame house 4 years and it still does this every now and again. It done it constantly at the start to the point that I thought someone would be coming in the door.

    I am guessing its your heating drying out the house...But again would need to be there.


  • #3
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Your fascia, is it uPVC ?, and if so what colour? and the same question for your guttering.


  • #4
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,248 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Sounds like drying out to me. Are there plaster mouldings/cornices to the ceilings in the Living Room?

    When I lived in a new house, the plaster cornices were stuck to the ceiling of the Living Room and we had the same noises/loud pops for about a year as the ceilings dried out, and obviously shrink a little, causing tension to build up between the ceiling and the adhesive to the plaster cornices, which every so often would just pop (not fall down).


  • #5
    giardiniera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭giardiniera


    thanks for that i think it is just settling. its a block house but its wooden beams holding the upstairs floors so i think its just those beams settling in.
    it is upvc fascia and its all white. No moldings or cornices though.

    hopefully it'll settle down in the next while i just wanted to make sure it wasnt anything more serious.


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