Yes this approach is used to mask tinnitus etc. I do have a bit of that too,
but this is not that most certainly as after a while one tends to get used
to ignoring it. I think intermittent noises are worse purely because they
are not constant. When the heating was first put in we had a dreadful noise,
but it was different and it was audible in her house too. In the end she had
to get stroppy with the company whos man spent about a day trying to find it
and yes, in that case it was a pump in an airing cupboard, but the sound was
totally different then. I think he replaced it and mounted it at another
place so i guess it might be wering out or bunged up or something so I
guess I'll have to mention it again.
It will probably be under wome kind of contract, but its hard to get folk
to look for a thing you can't hear in daytime. Yes I did think of earplugs,
but I can't sleep in those they make me feel vulnerable and I never go to
sleep.
Brian

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On 01/01/2014 09:26, Brian Gaff wrote:
There is a peculiar noise. IE its one of those very quiet intermittent
whirring noises that you can only hear when its quiet at night, and once
you
know its there, you find it wakes you up.
The problem is that its seemingly everywhere and nowhere in that its no
louder wherever you go except in the upstairs front rooms.
My suspicion is that it is part of next doors central heating that is
somehow transmitting the sound through the building, but she can hear
nothing she says.
Any tricks other than asking her to turn it off and on again, which
might
well not go down too well?
Do others have noises? Add to this of course that you don't it when
normal
sounds are there in the day.
Brian

Yes - for around seven years I have been very much more sensitive to very
low pitched sounds. I can be severely distracted and annoyed whilst
partner hears nothing. I notice other such sounds in many places - not
only at home. And the occasional aicraft. A hovering police helicopter can
be almost painful.

I too think that our next door's CH is a cause - possibly the pump making
a whole wall vibrate?

And, like you, I find even low levels of "ordinary" noise are enough to
swamp the low pitch noise. So I have a radio on at very low volume at
night. Seens to help a little.

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Rod