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Whats ticking?!

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FancifulFeathers · 06/09/2019 21:39

Didn’t know where else to post this!

There’s a ticking noise in my lounge. I don’t have a clock. I’ve investigated (on my hands and knees) and drawing a blank. Thought it might’ve been next door with a new REALLY LOUD clock but that’s unlikely isn’t it and not really coming from that direction.

Driving me insane. Any ideas?!

OP posts:
JesusHRooseveltChristAgain · 06/09/2019 22:33

It's the big clock.

(Only if you've seen Derry Girls)

Greyponcho · 06/09/2019 22:57

Is it a back boiler? We had one, felt like Captain Hook hearing ticking all through the house...

CherrySocks · 06/09/2019 23:01

I hope we are going to find out what it was!

3boysandabump · 06/09/2019 23:07

I was also going to suggest dripping.

justfortoday4367 · 06/09/2019 23:10

Do you have an automatic cat feeder? I remember hearing a ticking drove me mad! Until I realised I’d left the battery & setting on the bloody thing!

Moonflower12 · 06/09/2019 23:11

Toot Toot toys can tick as they run out of battery. Speaking from experience

NearlyGranny · 06/09/2019 23:13

That spider's knitting legwarmers, I reckon. It knows winter's coming!

Graphista · 06/09/2019 23:15

I love mn mystery threads

"It's clearly a cartoon bomb"
You mean an acme bomb obviously - set by wile e coyote

Op we had a whining noise in the house once was driving ex and I mad! Eventually found it was one of dds noisy battery toys, just as ex was about to grab it and blow it up it went nuts screeching an alarm! To say we both completely shit ourselves is an understatement (and ex is army! He pretty much "hit the deck") 😂😂😂

Quickly followed by us desperately trying to silence the damn thing so it didn't wake dd! Removing the batteries didn't work!! Ex ended up putting it in a pillowcase in the boot of car until he could dispose of the damn thing, putting in the bin would have been no good as bins sat right under ours and next doors kids bedroom windows and the bin would have simply amplified the sound!

He came back in and was like "I must've looked like a long tunes burglar I might as well have written 'swag' on the bloody pillowcase" 😂😂

The mad things we end up doing because of kids!

Graphista · 06/09/2019 23:17

Long tunes? Wtf autocorrect?

LOONY tunes

TooMinty · 06/09/2019 23:21

Oh yeah, D) cat food dispenser left on

Original poster
FancifulFeathers · 06/09/2019 23:29

Still none the wiser. Still annoying.

dh reckons it’s Pipes from Ghostwatch circa 1993. Dh isn’t home so thinks he’s hilarious

OP posts:
malmi · 06/09/2019 23:37

Do you have a metronome? It could be that.

FishyMcFishyfingersFace · 07/09/2019 03:04

Hope you found the ticking noise, but if you didn't here's my suggestion.

Do you have any glasses/cups/bottles upside down on your draining board? When they straddle a gap with water underneath the water gets slowly sucked up into the glass and the air escapes drop by drop, making a ticking sound. Happens a lot with me as I just leave dishes to drain rather than drying up.

vodkaredbullgirl · 07/09/2019 03:10

you imagination

PhilCornwall1 · 07/09/2019 03:15

I'm going with central heating too. I put mine on yesterday and the pipes were knocking a bit. I know where it comes from (under the floor on the landing), so wasn't surprised when I heard it.

SandyGusset · 07/09/2019 03:54

Do you have a bottle of fizzy drink open?
If the lid isn't on properly it can start ticking when the air escapes.

Monty27 · 07/09/2019 04:05

Bit of plastic in the dustbin? Scared the bejayus out of me more than once, or some gadget like an oven or washer cooling down
Don't worry it'll be simple and you'll probably laugh at yourself not that it's ever happened to me, oh no not once
Brew

HeronLanyon · 07/09/2019 04:09

Heating, a drip or death watching beetle. It’s also wasp season - they can make odd noises. What about an insect flitting in a light fitting ?

HeronLanyon · 07/09/2019 04:10

Watch. ‘Watching’ put a more grim spin on that !

Monty27 · 07/09/2019 04:19

Oh stop it. I like the idea of plastic just settling down.
Come back OP.
We need to know Hmm Shock
Grin

MoederVanEen · 07/09/2019 05:20

Probably water pipes in the wall that have come a bit loose or something. I had this in the bedroom of a flat I lived in once, used to wake me up and drive me up the wall. We had plumbers in but they were useless. I moved out in the end!

flouncyfanny · 07/09/2019 05:27

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HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 07/09/2019 05:31

Could be a leak if it has coincided with you putting your heating on for the 1st time.

brightonroc · 07/09/2019 05:56

A few tears ago I started intermittently hearing ticking in my bedroom. It took ages to find out where it was coming from. Eventually I pinpointed it to a mini chest of drawers I had bought from TKMaxx.

They had been made in India and after a little research I figured out there was a beetle living in the wood.

I put it in the freezer for a few weeks. Took it out. The ticking stopped!

Three months later it started again! I guess there must have been larvae in there...it went to the dump!

Monty27 · 07/09/2019 06:04

OP please tell me it's not a beetle. I need to sleep.
Grin

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