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Boyfriend thinks I'm loosing my marbles ..aibu?

37 replies

Louisaric233 · 09/10/2017 22:58

For a few months now I've heard a noise in the walls /floorboards.
I can only describe it as if a bee/wasp whatever was in.
It's driving me mad,it goes from the side of the bed,to the wall opposite then sometimes I hear it downstairs.
Boyfriend says I can't hear it,even when I say be quiet and listen.
He would say that if a herd of elephants were living there..
I wish I could attach a video with the noise.

OP posts:
lindblum · 09/10/2017 23:44

Could be mice. I was bothered for months by mice in the roof above my bedroom. They didn't get into the walls but if they could've, they'd have been all over the house.

blanklook · 09/10/2017 23:54

One year, we had a wasps nest in the roofspace above the bathroom. When we were in there, we'd hear a low buzz like yours that seemed to move from one part of the room to another occasionally, but nothing to be greatly concerned about.

Until the first time dd switched her electric toothbrush on.

It must have given off the same frequency of vibrations that a wasp predator would, the whole room was filled with the deafening sound of what sounded like thousands of wasps, what a fright we got.
So if you're in the bedroom, be careful if you use anything that gives off any noise like an electric toothbrush Wink

But seriously, and it's much easier at this time of year as the days are shorter, look at the eaves or above the guttering to see if you can see a few insects hovering near your roof not long after sunrise and just before sunset, near where you think the noise is mostly, that should let you know if there's a nest. Then try and identify what type of insect it is, wasps are a pest, honey bees are endangered and will move on of their own accord usually. We've had bumble bees above 2 bedrooms and all you'd hear for a few weeks through the night in summer must have been just one who buzzed twice, sounded like zzzt zzzt every few minutes, but it stayed in the same place.

You may need to ring the Council and ask their Pest Control chap for advice, ours is very helpful.

RB68 · 10/10/2017 00:07

Sounds like wasps or bees which is quite likely

Justaboy · 10/10/2017 00:11

can you not post the video somewhere so we can have an earful?

Poshjock · 10/10/2017 00:11

I can hear noises that OH can't and vice-versa. I think we exist on different frequencies! You are not going mad. Hope you find the source of your irritating noise soon.

intergalacticbrexitdisco · 10/10/2017 00:16

Possibly look into pest control, or employ the ghost of the late Alan Rickman to see off any errant rodents?

CheshireChat · 10/10/2017 00:56

I'm so, so glad people posted about hearing electrical devices buzzing. I thought it was just me.

Can you leave a mouse trap ready, OP?

Louisaric233 · 10/10/2017 07:41

I can still hear it this morning too argh.
Last night I literally stripped the bedroom so I could see all the floor etc..and nothing.
Whatever it is I reckon is in walls /floor
It honestly sounds like a bee/wasp

OP posts:
disahsterdahling · 10/10/2017 08:34

Could be "solitary" bees - they don't seem to be that solitary as they live in groups under the eaves. They have never bothered us, but they fly around outside the roof of the house.

We appear to have the remnants of a wasps nest on the other side, too. Occasionally one finds its way into the bathroom and apparently they behave a bit like moths this time of year, if you get up in the dark and switch the light on, they come towards the light. But oddly enough they've never bothered us either even though wasps are usually a pain. Definitely wasps though but perhaps a different species to the ones that come after your drinks and ice cream!

If you could post the video it would be really useful.

disahsterdahling · 10/10/2017 08:35

Oh and we've got electric toothbrushes too, but they've not come after us when we've used them :)

Flyingflipflop · 10/10/2017 08:37

Are you a bat with sonic hearing?

Deux · 10/10/2017 08:37

It's hugely frustrating when you can hear a noise at night but can't locate the source.

Do you or your DP have an auto winding watch?

For the best part of a week DH and I could hear a noise at bedtime that was a quite high pitched/high frequency buzzing but it kind of rotated, like a marble going round a tin.

We took everything electric out of our bedroom to discover that the noise was coming from the mechanism in DH's watch. Shock. So the watch has to live in a drawer at night. It was driving me crazy.

So have you tried that? Or any radio controlled clocks that receive a signal? Have you tried turning the wifi off?

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