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On 2/18/2017 2:35 PM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
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On 2/18/2017 12:40 PM, Colonel Edmund J.
Burke wrote:
On 2/18/2017 8:14 AM, Tbu62 wrote:
replying to norminn, Tbu62 wrote:
I have the same thing in 2 different homes.
A very subtle 60
Hertz hum that
drives me crazy. It's noticeable
everywhere inside both houses.
I strongly
suspect the structures are resonating the
vibrations from the
surrounding electrical grid. (why not,
flowing energy creates
resonance in the wires and
pipes)....

Curiously, if that is the correct word for
it, I, too, hear a
curious humming sound in my home. It starts
around six o'clock
nearly every evening. It resembles an
electric motor...the hum
of an electric motor, to be more exact. I
walk around the house
and the noise seems to be coming for
everywhere. It's as loud in
the front of the house as it is in the back.
Maybe I got wax in
my ears.....but if that were the case,
wouldn't I be hearing less
of the noise?

Please help me figure this one out.

Shut all your breakers off. Does the hum go
away?

Turn them back on, one at a time, checking
for hum.

This exact same problem happened to me several
years ago, and that's
exactly what I did... shut off all my
breakers, but the sound was
still there, coming from the ceiling of one of
my bathrooms. I was
about ready to start ripping the ceiling out,
when I heard the
neighbors talking about the same thing out in
front of my house.
Turns out the neighbor had a water leak, and
the sound was coming
from her meter. Apparently the pipes carried
the sound into her
house and mine as well.

Strange, but true...

Yes, that is certainly plausible.

I'm surprised it was so loud, since I have about
a 75' lateral from my
meter to my house. I'm sure she had a nice
water bill that month.

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you can't be serious , you pay for water

Of course, but my water bill is usually around $11 a month... I can't
complain. My electric bill is pretty high, but I'm testing big-ass
motors all the time.

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Checkmate

In loving memory of The Battle Kitten
May 2010-February 12, 2017

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