An interesting thing we have in the basement in a room right now...
There are clear and quite loud creaking noises in the ceiling of our extended basement area. I can't remember if it was like this during the warm season, but it certainly creaks now. It sounds from all over, not concentrated in just one place.
We have underfloor heating in the room above, but there is no sound up there, so I don't think it's the pipes making the noise.
The intermediate floor consists of wooden joists against a steel beam in the middle, insulated and covered with plasterboard in the basement ceiling.
The basement is heated but not living space, so the room maintains about 15 degrees, heated with a radiator.
Could it be the temperature difference somehow causing tension in the plasterboard, and that's what's creaking?
Since the room is an auxiliary area, it doesn't bother us much, but it would be fun to know what is causing it.
Thanks in advance
There are clear and quite loud creaking noises in the ceiling of our extended basement area. I can't remember if it was like this during the warm season, but it certainly creaks now. It sounds from all over, not concentrated in just one place.
We have underfloor heating in the room above, but there is no sound up there, so I don't think it's the pipes making the noise.
The intermediate floor consists of wooden joists against a steel beam in the middle, insulated and covered with plasterboard in the basement ceiling.
The basement is heated but not living space, so the room maintains about 15 degrees, heated with a radiator.
Could it be the temperature difference somehow causing tension in the plasterboard, and that's what's creaking?
Since the room is an auxiliary area, it doesn't bother us much, but it would be fun to know what is causing it.
Thanks in advance
It's likely the hot water pipes, even if they aren't heard in the floor above.
The pipes are probably under some floor construction that dampens the sound upwards.
Check where pipes go through tight holes in the beam structure.
The pipes are probably under some floor construction that dampens the sound upwards.
Check where pipes go through tight holes in the beam structure.
House borer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kkr3e19S9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kkr3e19S9g
Hmm... On top of the pipes (which are in milled chipboard) there's floor gypsum, foam, and a 15mm engineered wood floor.
Under the milled chipboard there's another layer of chipboard, beams and 220 insulation, and then the gypsum layer.
I find it very hard to believe that it would sound so strong downward and nothing at all upward if it were the pipes. But I will listen a bit more carefully tonight.
Husbock?? In that case, we have infestations everywhere in the new extension but none in the old part next to it... and the wood-borers are either millions, or moving inexplicably fast in the ceiling...
By the way, I asked our underfloor heating guy when he was here. He listened and said, "I actually have no idea" (it wasn't him who installed this particular loop).
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Under the milled chipboard there's another layer of chipboard, beams and 220 insulation, and then the gypsum layer.
I find it very hard to believe that it would sound so strong downward and nothing at all upward if it were the pipes. But I will listen a bit more carefully tonight.
Husbock?? In that case, we have infestations everywhere in the new extension but none in the old part next to it... and the wood-borers are either millions, or moving inexplicably fast in the ceiling...
By the way, I asked our underfloor heating guy when he was here. He listened and said, "I actually have no idea" (it wasn't him who installed this particular loop).
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Not at home but at work. There were heating pipes along the outer walls, and during the winter months, they made some noise. It was the heating pipes struggling to pass through some passage into the boss's room. He never complained, but it bothered me a bit when the pipes expanded and contracted in length. It was definitely the pipes between the radiators that created the sound.