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Humming sound coming from an exterior wall
HELP! I'm at the end of my string!! We have been struggling with a
sound that we hear in our wall. It just happens to be the bedroom wall...so it makes sleep difficult at times. We are hearing a humming sound...it honestly sounds electrical. Originally, I thought I'd chased the sound to the outside power meter. We had the Power Company come out...TWICE...they checked the meter and all was well with that. We began shutting off power to the house room by room....still heard the sound.....we just shut the whole breaker off...STILL WE HEARD THE SOUND! It's been going on for weeks and I'm super concerned that it could cause a fire. I'm not sure what to tell an electrican if I call one...gee, there's this sound that comes from my wall...sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't. ??? I have been reading online that it could be water pipes....or from the hot water heater...the hot water heater is not far from this wall, but it's an exterior wall...so I don't think there is pipes running in it....When I put my ear up to the wall, it sounds like a toaster oven's hum...or almost like something is shorting out....We've even shut the power an tightened up any loose connections from the breaker box. HELP!!! SUGGESTIONS?! We are first time homeowners (with a new baby and short on cash) and are at a loss as to where to go from here! My personal email is . I joined this group to ask this specific question, but I'm not sure that I know how this group thing works...maybe I can figure it out better than I can figure out the humming wall sound! (no bees or the like, no doorbells...all those have been checked!) |
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If you shut the power off and it still hums, then maybe it's something
that has a battery ? I agree with the stethescope idea, narrow it down as much as you can and cut a small hole in the wall. Repairing drywall is easy and cheap (though you may not have matching paint). Do you have a radon blower ? wrote: HELP! I'm at the end of my string!! We have been struggling with a sound that we hear in our wall. It just happens to be the bedroom wall...so it makes sleep difficult at times. We are hearing a humming sound...it honestly sounds electrical. Originally, I thought I'd chased the sound to the outside power meter. We had the Power Company come out...TWICE...they checked the meter and all was well with that. We began shutting off power to the house room by room....still heard the sound.....we just shut the whole breaker off...STILL WE HEARD THE SOUND! It's been going on for weeks and I'm super concerned that it could cause a fire. I'm not sure what to tell an electrican if I call one...gee, there's this sound that comes from my wall...sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't. ??? I have been reading online that it could be water pipes....or from the hot water heater...the hot water heater is not far from this wall, but it's an exterior wall...so I don't think there is pipes running in it....When I put my ear up to the wall, it sounds like a toaster oven's hum...or almost like something is shorting out....We've even shut the power an tightened up any loose connections from the breaker box. HELP!!! SUGGESTIONS?! We are first time homeowners (with a new baby and short on cash) and are at a loss as to where to go from here! My personal email is . I joined this group to ask this specific question, but I'm not sure that I know how this group thing works...maybe I can figure it out better than I can figure out the humming wall sound! (no bees or the like, no doorbells...all those have been checked!) |
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wrote in message ups.com... HELP! I'm at the end of my string!! We have been struggling with a sound that we hear in our wall. It just happens to be the bedroom wall...so it makes sleep difficult at times. We are hearing a humming sound...it honestly sounds electrical. Originally, I thought I'd chased the sound to the outside power meter. We had the Power Company come out...TWICE...they checked the meter and all was well with that. We began shutting off power to the house room by room....still heard the sound.....we just shut the whole breaker off...STILL WE HEARD THE SOUND! It's been going on for weeks and I'm super concerned that it could cause a fire. I'm not sure what to tell an electrican if I call one...gee, there's this sound that comes from my wall...sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't. ??? I have been reading online that it could be water pipes....or from the hot water heater...the hot water heater is not far from this wall, but it's an exterior wall...so I don't think there is pipes running in it....When I put my ear up to the wall, it sounds like a toaster oven's hum...or almost like something is shorting out....We've even shut the power an tightened up any loose connections from the breaker box. HELP!!! SUGGESTIONS?! We are first time homeowners (with a new baby and short on cash) and are at a loss as to where to go from here! My personal email is . I joined this group to ask this specific question, but I'm not sure that I know how this group thing works...maybe I can figure it out better than I can figure out the humming wall sound! (no bees or the like, no doorbells...all those have been checked!) Could there be duct work or a vent in this wall? What about an alarm system or cable or telephone equipment? I've seen houses with water and heating pipes running in exterior walls (bad design). If it is driving you nuts, then I agree with John A. Weeks that is time to cut into the wall and see what is making the noise. You can always repair the wall. |
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HELP! I'm at the end of my string!! We have been struggling with a sound that we hear in our wall. It just happens to be the bedroom wall...so it makes sleep difficult at times. We are hearing a humming sound...it honestly sounds electrical. Termites, bees, or ants? |
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ups.com... HELP! I'm at the end of my string!! We have been struggling with a sound that we hear in our wall. It just happens to be the bedroom wall...so it makes sleep difficult at times. We are hearing a humming sound...it honestly sounds electrical. Originally, I thought I'd Get a digital recording of this noise. 1. It will prove the sound is there and not just inside your head (ringing in the ears.) 2. It will have a waveform that you can analyse on a home computer (frequency, volume in decibels etc.) People who know noise may be able to recognize if it resembles something else. 3. You can compare waveforms recorded at various points inside and outside the wall, at various heights above ground etc. Differences may suggest 3-1 whether the noise is constant or varies: e.g. hum from an electrical panel would be confident whilel hum from a refrigerator compressor would stop and restart as the fridge cycles off and on; 3 - 2 whether the noise originates inside your house or outside. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Humming sound coming from an exterior wall
GREAT suggestions! I'm not sure about the radon blower...I'll have to
check with my husband on that one. I'm hoping to find something out soon. Last night I had to sleep on the sofa because it was driving me nuts. My husband can only hear it when he listens for it...in other words it does not disturb his sleep. Let's see...between getting up with THAT sound a new baby...yeah, I'm a happy camper with all the sleep I'm getting! |
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Humming sound coming from an exterior wall
GREAT suggestions! I'm not sure about the radon blower...I'll have to
check with my husband on that one. I'm hoping to find something out soon. Last night I had to sleep on the sofa because it was driving me nuts. My husband can only hear it when he listens for it...in other words it does not disturb his sleep. Let's see...between getting up with THAT sound a new baby...yeah, I'm a happy camper with all the sleep I'm getting! |
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Humming sound coming from an exterior wall
Heathcliff wrote: wrote: GREAT suggestions! I'm not sure about the radon blower...I'll have to check with my husband on that one. I'm hoping to find something out soon. Last night I had to sleep on the sofa because it was driving me nuts. My husband can only hear it when he listens for it...in other words it does not disturb his sleep. Let's see...between getting up with THAT sound a new baby...yeah, I'm a happy camper with all the sleep I'm getting! Another possibility is . . . bees. You could probably test that one by knocking on the wall where you hear the sound and see if the sound changes. -- H Wooops, I didn't see the part where you ruled that out, but now I do. Mea culpa. -- H |
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