Consider lessening the impact on the planet by trying cut-to-fit filters that can be cleaned and reused.
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The solution: Install clean filters regularly, “anywhere from 3 months to monthly, depending on atmospheric conditions,” says Richardson. “What it will do is start sucking exhaust gases from the furnace into the house.” The problem: “What that can connote is that your filter hasn’t been changed,” says Richardson, “and your furnace is trying to pull in air from around it.” That’s not good, he says the furnace is working too hard. My furnace is making a whistling (sucking) sound that it’s never made before. “It could a little bit longer, it could go a lot longer,” but the damage is probably done, says Kuhn. If your water heater is already making these noises, draining it might help. “However, nobody does it,” says Kuhn, because it can be a pain to do. The solution: Ideally, you should flush out your hot water tank every few months, using the drain valve near the bottom of the floor. The strange noise you hear is the bubbling sediment-and a sign that the tank is probably experiencing fatigue and may be facing premature failure, says Kuhn. “A lot of sediment builds up at the bottom of a hot water tank, and that sediment works like an insulator,” forcing the burner to work harder, Kuhn says. The problem: A gas-fired hot water heater works pretty much like boiling a pot of water: A fire is lit and the water inside is heated until it’s ready for use.
I hear a bubbling (or cracking) sound coming from the water heater. After pests have been removed, make sure vents and chimneys are securely covered with a grille or mesh chimney cap so those spaces can still breathe. To keep raccoons away, put garbage in sealed, secured metal cans that can’t be tipped.
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(Call in a pro if the animal is stubborn or large.) Finally, prevent the problem from reoccurring by sealing up the entrances to your house with steel wool, metal sheeting, caulk, and/or hardware cloth. The solution: As soon as you suspect an intruder, get on it: Set traps or a bat repelling system. Some animals will tear up insulation to nest, or chew through siding or even electrical wires, causing fires. In the Southwest, the droppings of mice can spread hantavirus. “Any kind of wild critter could be up in the attic,” he says.Īnd these freeloaders aren’t just a nuisance bats can carry deadly rabies. You may have mice, squirrels, raccoons, or even bats sharing your quarters, says Richardson. The problem: If you hear strange noises like scratching and possibly chittering coming from places where no human or beloved pet lives in the house, you probably don’t have ghosts. There’s a strange and spooky scratching sound coming from behind the walls. The solution: Get a repairman out to check on it, pronto. If you hear knocking or clanking, typically located at the boiler itself, it might be a sign of impending failure of the circulator pump, he says. The circulator pump or pumps to the system, however, “should be silent when they run,” says Kuhn. With a baseboard hot-water system, you can also expect “normal clinking and knocking,” says Kuhn. The problem: When most homeowners first turn on their heating system in the fall, they’ll often hear a little moaning and groaning as the heating system expands and rubs against the frame of the house, says Mike Kuhn, the New Jersey owner of a HouseMaster inspection service and coauthor of The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Home Inspections. What is that clanking sound when we turn on the heat? Read on to find out how 11 spooky house sounds are diagnosed and how each can be resolved. We asked the experts to catalog some of the more worrisome pops, hisses, groans, creaks, and knocks and tell us what they mean and how they can be remedied. If your home is making noises that make you jump in the night (or sounds that rival Metallica’s greatest hits), then it may be sending you signals that there’s a problem. They’re built of many different materials-glass, concrete, wood-that expand and contract at different rates, causing friction that results in those odd spooky sounds.īut still, “The most noise your house should make is a popping sound, like your knuckles cracking, and only once in a while,” says Bill Richardson, former president of the American Society of Home Inspectors and owner of Responsive Inspections in Bosque Farms, New Mexico.
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