I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? Any ideas? I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? Traps, etc? I got
no night cameras.

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse!

nb

--
Definition of objectivism:
"Eff you! I got mine."
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notbob writes:

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

--
Dan Espen

On Oct 8, 11:22*am, notbob wrote:
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. *A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. *I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. *It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. *When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. *I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? *Any ideas? *I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. *Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? *Traps, etc? *I got
no night cameras.

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse! *

nb

--
Definition of objectivism:
"Eff you! *I got mine."http://www.nongmoproject.org/

Boogie Man?

In article , Dan Espen
wrote:

notbob writes:

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

OP said the noise stops when he rustles around, so I think his
assumption that it's a critter is probably correct.

In article ,
says...

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? Any ideas? I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? Traps, etc? I got
no night cameras.


My refrigerator ice maker sounds just like that. You don't hear it
during the day due to other noises blocking it out. The ticking is as it
is applying pressure to dislodge the ice cubes - dominoes sound is when
the cubes fall into the bin.

Also can be clocks ticking.

Or a woodstove, oven, or furnace warming up.

On Oct 8, 3:22*am, notbob wrote:
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. *A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. *I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. *It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. *When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. *I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? *Any ideas? *I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. *Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? *Traps, etc? *I got
no night cameras.

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse! *

nb

--
Definition of objectivism:
"Eff you! *I got mine."http://www.nongmoproject.org/

You just described poorly installed wallboard heating! As it cools
down, tick, tick, tick. Irritating beyond belief.

Here in AZ, a single tick indicates a scorpion somewhere around. At
least so far, hear the tick, later find the scorpion.

On 10/8/2012 8:53 AM, Bill wrote:
In ,
says...
....

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. ...
... When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. ...

My refrigerator ice maker sounds just like that. You don't hear it
during the day due to other noises blocking it out. The ticking is as it
is applying pressure to dislodge the ice cubes - dominoes sound is when
the cubes fall into the bin.
....

And it knows to quit doing that when you get up as well???



--

Smitty Two writes:

In article , Dan Espen
wrote:

notbob writes:

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

OP said the noise stops when he rustles around, so I think his
assumption that it's a critter is probably correct.

Could be, or could be that walking around flexes the floors enough to
move everything into place for the current temperature.

--
Dan Espen

On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:31:43 AM UTC-4, Smitty Two wrote:
In article , Dan Espen
The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

OP said the noise stops when he rustles around, so I think his
assumption that it's a critter is probably correct.

Not necessarily. I've been in a few of these trailer homes and they're typically not all that well constructed. There's some give to the floor as you walk around, so it is entirely plausible that when he gets up and walks around, the flexing of the floor relieves the tension in whatever's contracting. It pops back in place in one fell swoop rather than a little at a time.

Normally if it's critters, they will scurry away making some noise in the process.

However, just to be on the safe side inspect the house and look for places they could get in. Maybe some baited traps for mice and/or larger critters.

If your cabin is heated with hot water heating, a ticking noise at regular intervals will often be due to the heating pipes expanding and rubbing against the wall studs, floor joists or floor as they heat up and get longer or cool down and get shorter.

When water pipes are rubbing against something, they expand and contract, with "earthquake-type" movement, where the stress builds up until the pipe moves, and you hear a "tick", and the pipe goes silent as the stress builds up again and you hear another "tick" as the pipe moves and rubs against what ever it's rubbing on.

However, that kinda ticking wouldn't stop if you were to yell out or make a loud noise.

I would get some old clothes on and get under your house with a flashlight to see if you can find anything under there. If not, beg borrow or steal an electric heater and turn off the heating system in your house for one night and see if the noise stops.

On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:31:43 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article , Dan Espen
wrote:

notbob writes:

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

OP said the noise stops when he rustles around, so I think his
assumption that it's a critter is probably correct.
Moving around MAY be shifting things a bit so the contraction tension
is relieved, quieting things down, at least for a while.

One answer, is to put a radio under your skirting. Tune it to raucous and
offensive rap music. Animals often have more brains than humans, will find a
different place to live. However, you might have some low IQ humans move in,
instead.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"notbob" wrote in message
...
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? Any ideas? I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? Traps, etc? I got
no night cameras.

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse!

nb

--
Definition of objectivism:
"Eff you! I got mine."
http://www.nongmoproject.org/

On Oct 8, 10:36*am, Dan Espen wrote:
Smitty Two writes:
In article , Dan Espen
wrote:

notbob writes:

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will..
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. *A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. *Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

OP said the noise stops when he rustles around, so I think his
assumption that it's a critter is probably correct.

Could be, or could be that walking around flexes the floors enough to
move everything into place for the current temperature.

--
Dan Espen- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Similar to that...

My daughters are both away at college. When one or the other is home
and using their bedroom, you can walk around in the room, even if no
one has been in there for hours, and not hear a sound. However, after
a day or two of the room being empty, it makes these tiny little not-
even-creaking, more like Rice Krispie noises as you walk across the
room. The first time I heard it, it was kind of creepy.

On 2012-10-08, Oren wrote:

I'll vote chipmunks. Clever creatures. Got any cats to find them?

Nary a one. 8|

nb

--
Definition of objectivism:
"Eff you! I got mine."
http://www.nongmoproject.org/

On 8 Oct 2012 17:18:53 GMT, notbob wrote:

On 2012-10-08, Dan Espen wrote:

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

I been listening to this abode contract and expand fer 5 years.
It's definitely not vegetable or mineral.

You've never heard (of) a house breathing?

On Oct 8, 5:22*am, notbob wrote:
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. *A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.


Snow ticks crawling around!

On Oct 8, 5:22*am, notbob wrote:
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. *A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. *I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. *It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. *When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. *I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? *Any ideas? *I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. *Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? *Traps, etc? *I got
no night cameras.

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse! *

nb

--
Definition of objectivism:
"Eff you! *I got mine."http://www.nongmoproject.org/

The radio on a switched extension cord seems like a foolproof way to
tell if it is a mechanical or animal problem.

On 10/8/12 5:22 AM, notbob wrote:
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.
Other times, it's louder, a clicking sound like a kid moving domininos
around the table and clacking them one against another, again a random
pattern. I only hear this at night, and only occassionally, but more
and more, lately. It's not in the house, though it sounds like it is.
That's why I think it's under the house. When I get up and make some
noise, the sound stops. I'm sure it's some sorta nocturnal animal
taking up residence under the house, but what? Any ideas? I've only
seen bunny rabbits and chipmonks around the house during the day. Any
ideas how to determine what it is and be rid of it? Traps, etc? I got
no night cameras.

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse!

nb


One way to discourage critters is to put the old stinky mothballs
in the space. Critters don't like the smell any more than humans do.

"notbob" wrote in message
...
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

I just had the dog go nuts and try to dislodge the stove. Then I
remembered: this is the time of year that little critters tend to move out
of their cold, in-ground burrows and try moving in with nice, warm humans.
That's my guess based on your description. A critter has moved in. Did you
just recently have a severe temperature drop in the area?

Just this weekend I set a peanut butter based trap only to find it all
licked away. Then I reset the trap with a pistachio nut glued down with PB.
Mice tend to try to take morsels like whole nuts home to the nest (AMHIKAT),
so they try to dislodge it and BAM! A very fat little mouse was stuck in
the trap on Sunday.

Apparently I had just the one because the dog's no longer got 'rodent
insanity' and the other three traps are empty. My bet is you've got a
critter and your best bet is a few traps with nuts glued to the treadle with
PB. I'd start with a mouse trap and work up through the rat traps and into
the Hav-a-hart size. If you've got critters, you'll see the bait gone and
maybe even the whole trap gone if it's too small.

As for noise scaring off rodents permanently, don't believe it. I used to
live next to a discotheque (remember disco?) and despite playing Donna
Summer at floor shaking volume, the place was infested with rats.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex594 says:

Mice can be frightened by unfamiliar sounds or sounds coming from new
locations. However, they soon become accustomed to new sounds and lose their
fear of them . . .While it is possible to cause permanent physiological
damage to mice with ultrasound, the intensity of such sounds must be so
great that damage to humans or domestic animals would also be likely. For
these reasons, ultrasonic and ultrasound devices are not recommended to
effectively scare away mice.

--
Bobby G.

How to keep the odor away from humans?

Friend of mine puts mothballs under old cars, to keep mice from chewing the
wiring.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"Dean Hoffman" " wrote in message
...

We once had an infestation of field mice, but they made no noise,
being quiet as a ...well.... mouse!

nb


One way to discourage critters is to put the old stinky mothballs
in the space. Critters don't like the smell any more than humans do.

On Oct 8, 8:18*pm, "Robert Green" wrote:
"notbob" wrote in message

...

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. *A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

I just had the dog go nuts and try to dislodge the stove. *Then I
remembered: *this is the time of year that little critters tend to move out
of their cold, in-ground burrows and try moving in with nice, warm humans..
That's my guess based on your description. *A critter has moved in. *Did you
just recently have a severe temperature drop in the area?

Just this weekend I set a peanut butter based trap only to find it all
licked away. *Then I reset the trap with a pistachio nut glued down with PB.
Mice tend to try to take morsels like whole nuts home to the nest (AMHIKAT),
so they try to dislodge it and BAM! *A very fat little mouse was stuck in
the trap on Sunday.

Apparently I had just the one because the dog's no longer got 'rodent
insanity' and the other three traps are empty. *My bet is you've got a
critter and your best bet is a few traps with nuts glued to the treadle with
PB. *I'd start with a mouse trap and work up through the rat traps and into
the Hav-a-hart size. *If you've got critters, you'll see the bait gone and
maybe even the whole trap gone if it's too small.

As for noise scaring off rodents permanently, don't believe it. *I used to
live next to a discotheque (remember disco?) and despite playing Donna
Summer at floor shaking volume, the place was infested with rats.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex594*says:

Mice can be frightened by unfamiliar sounds or sounds coming from new
locations. However, they soon become accustomed to new sounds and lose their
fear of them . . .While it is possible to cause permanent physiological
damage to mice with ultrasound, the intensity of such sounds must be so
great that damage to humans or domestic animals would also be likely. For
these reasons, ultrasonic and ultrasound devices are not recommended to
effectively scare away mice.

--
Bobby G.

hear, hear, pardon the pun.

from experience, ultrasonic chirper to keep rodents away - WASTE OF
MONEY! Hurt MY ears, but still [during one bad infestation] got 12
rats in the victor traps. Yes, I throw away trap and all after
spraying the whole thing and area with Raid flea spray.

"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
On Oct 8, 8:18 pm, "Robert Green" wrote:

stuff snipped

As for noise scaring off rodents permanently, don't believe it. I used to
live next to a discotheque (remember disco?) and despite playing Donna
Summer at floor shaking volume, the place was infested with rats.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex594 says:

Mice can be frightened by unfamiliar sounds or sounds coming from new
locations. However, they soon become accustomed to new sounds and lose
their
fear of them . . .While it is possible to cause permanent physiological
damage to mice with ultrasound, the intensity of such sounds must be so
great that damage to humans or domestic animals would also be likely. For
these reasons, ultrasonic and ultrasound devices are not recommended to
effectively scare away mice.

--
Bobby G.

hear, hear, pardon the pun.

Very punny.

from experience, ultrasonic chirper to keep rodents away - WASTE OF
MONEY!

I though you were one of the Council of Elders. You shouldn't be able to
hear anything in the ultrasonic range.

Hurt MY ears, but still [during one bad infestation] got 12
rats in the victor traps. Yes, I throw away trap and all after
spraying the whole thing and area with Raid flea spray.

Rats care where food is, all other concerns are secondary, it seems. That
damn disco (Tramps, if anyone gives a damn) was empty and dark all day and
the usually nocturnal rats mostly kept to themselves until there was a small
fire and then they poured out of that building like endless clowns from a
clown car. It was like the movie "Willard" where Ernest Borgnine says "Look
at all the rats!" when he sees the floor is just one moving sea of rats.

Wasn't quite that bad or as bad as the granaries filled with mice instead of
grain that I saw on the Croc Hunter. Apparently in boom grain years, the
mouse population in Oz rises beyond what native predators can handle. Once
you've seen a grain bin door open and mice come spilling out you realize the
how much we take for granted in the first world. No more locust plagues, no
cholera, no smallpox. Just a few critters trying to move in with us to keep
warm. (-:

The best hint I've heard about trapping indoor rodents is to follow the
urine/turd trails and place the traps against the wall. Rodents apparently
are thigmatropic - they like to feel their body in contact with the wall
when they move. Roaches, too.

--
Bobby G.

wrote in message
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:31:43 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article , Dan Espen
wrote:

notbob writes:

I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a
modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will.
I have alum flashing around the underside.

At night I wake to hear this tick,tick,tick. A sound like someone
randomly tapping on a hard table top with the end of a pen/pencil.

The dwelling is expanding in daytime heat and contracting at night when
it gets cool. Completely normal to hear ticking like that.

OP said the noise stops when he rustles around, so I think his
assumption that it's a critter is probably correct.
Moving around MAY be shifting things a bit so the contraction tension
is relieved, quieting things down, at least for a while.

Had the same thing in my house and finally traced it to hot water pipes
contracting after hot water was used about bed time. Heard the noise after
I had gotten into bed and the house was quiet, then the tapping started and
went on for half an hour or so. I'll get used to it -- not worth ripping
out the wall to see if I can quiet things down.

Tomsic

as a child we had a WIERD problem, the doorbell would ring at all
sorts of odd random times......

I at around 10 years old traced it to the doorbell buttons wire
passing near a gas lines hanger......

when the hot water tank turned on the gas line would move a little,
and its hanger touch the wire and ring the bell.............

very irritating at 4 am