I dont think this is uncommon but what I mean with "ticking" walls is when your wall suddenly starts making a periodical "clicking" noise. Mine is doing it in my bedroom and it feels like im sleeping on a god-dang timebomb.
Is there a way of getting rid of this that doesnt involve tearing open the wall and welding everything together I can find? Does anyone else have this problem?
I fixed it by going to a therapist and getting meds
There should be a circular device on your wall with two arms moving at certain intervals.
This is the device that controls the ticking in your walls. Smash it with a hammer.
If you said it's regular like a clock ticking when it happens. Could it be plumbing? Maybe you got some pipes that are shaking in the wall?
Do you have a radiator heat system in your home? If so it could be the pipes shaking from the pressure of the system pump turning on.
https://youtu.be/gHQP6uOhCg0
Can you record a clip of the audio? Someone might be able to tell you what it is if they heard it.
It really just sounds like heat differences making things move, as someone said earlier. I've heard it in an old apartment balcony, so not caused strictly by pipes, but generally just heat differences causing things to expand and then later settle.
Why is it that the first thing that popped into my head when reading this thread was that part in Resident Evil 7 where Lucas locks you in a room with a bomb and you have to shove it into a crack in the wall to save yourself?
Call Jack Black
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i get resident evil 7 is old news by now but would it kill you to use spoiler tags
The sound isn't actually coming from the wall, it just seems like it because you're lying with your bed next to the wall. The sound is actually coming from your body, it's called a heartbeat. To stop it, try removing the organ responsible for the sound, the heart.
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Yea I do. Actually this reasoning makes a lot of sense. It does happen a lot more during the colder seasons :/
According to google youd have to tear the wall open for that
Mine does this same exact thing for a minute or so after it starts.
hm. I can try letting as much air out as possible. Its only really a turn with a wrench and waiting for water to come out. Would that maybe help with the problem?
"He was still sitting up in the bed listening; Just as i have done, night after night,
Hearkening to the death watches in the wall." - Edgar Allan Poe
No but seriously, it might be death watches. It's and insect, a beetle that makes ticking noises.
In old times people thought they were the seconds of your life ticking down.
I highly doubt that. This has been happening for a years now if it was a bug it would be dead no?
Exactly, so it must be a death watch
double death watch
Also just noticed I wrote "a years". Im keeping the mistake in tho. Kinda funny I guess
That I am not sure about. I believe its a little more complicated than that to bleed the system
Heating pipes, I know because the radiators get clicky like that when I turn on the heating, it's due to air bubbles and water pouring in to fill up the radiators and shit. Harmless.
hearing your walls click gets even scarier when you've hung a 600 dollar television on them
Hot water pipes will do it when they get a fresh shot and its been unused for a while or the pipes got cold.
Usually only happens to poorly installed pipes because a good system will account for expansion and wont be some cheap fastener system.
My house is atleast 100 years old. I assume the pipes have been there for a while (not 100 years tho ofc). I dont think it was cheap on purpose
While on the topic, every night my wall makes a sound like the squeak of a rubber shoe on tile or a valve squeaking shut. I have no idea what makes that noise
Your wall is ticking because it's a metronome keeping time for the singing pipes.
My electric heater does the same thing. It's pretty loud when you've accustomed to everything being silent.
There's no easy fix.
sometimes if something falls in between my wall and my bed any slight movements will shake it against the wall and make a ticking noise for a few seconds.
and at my apartment flushing the toilet makes this awful loud noise a few seconds after, i'm guessing it's how it gets the water up to the 4th floor.
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