Vibrating and humming noises in house

[Shibby585]

Hoping for some advice before I go mad. We have been hearing noises in our house for over a year which sound like a TV on too loud and a vibrating through the bed.

We have turned off all electric in our house, the gas and mains and it persisted and we went and stopped at another house to make sure it wasn't us. Upon further investigation it seemed that there was a wall mounted TV causing the issue and when this was turned off the sound was better.

However we could still hear something and feel the vibration. I asked the neighbour and they said everything was off and offered to help.

They do have a TV with speakers and a sound bar and do stop up late as they both work shifts, but we have been assured that this was off when we said we could feel it.

We obviously don't want to be accusing the neighbours if it is not them, is there any way to prove where this sound and vibration is coming from. They do tend to leave the tv's on all night, and advised the heating is on too. We don't want to accuse anyone as they have been working with us but it's really affecting our mental health.

How do we get toe the bottom of this?

How loud is it? I only ask because there’s something called ‘The Hum’. Only a small proportion of the population can hear it and it’s more prevalent in certain areas (our city being one of them) Look it up on YouTube and you can see if it fits the bill. It drives DH mad yet I can’t hear it.

We thought of the hum but seems to stop at another house and when they are out? It only really started when they both started working nights and we used a fan to cover the noise. The vibrating is new, but so are the TV speakers :/

Also just wanted to chip in we have lived here a few years and it only started a year or so ago. So why all of a sudden can we hear something after 3+ years of peace?

A constant low frequency hum could be a noisy fridge against a shared wall. Where is their kitchen?

I have no idea what it could be OP, central heating perhaps? Do you have an electricity pylon nearby?
I'm interested in this hum. I've never heard of it before.
When I go to bed at night, I can hear a noise that sounds like the central heating boiler, it isn't the boiler as everything is turned off.
No one else seems to be able to hear it! It drives me mad, is this the hum mentioned??

If their kitchen is like ours it shouldn't be against a shared wall. It's like an open plan rectangle with the dining room at the bottom and the kitchen not attached to the party wall. Could be boiler, again to my knowledge not on the party wall?

It's really hard to say as they have the heating at TV's running all the time. We are right by a street lamp, and have one of those (I think) pylons with a telephone cable running to our house?

Extractor fan?

Well they probably told you all their stuff was off and you could still hear it so that you didn't ask them to turn their stuff off/make any adjustments.

Not so much vibrations but we had a humming noise in the house for weeks which drove me almost crazy. It eventually turned out to be a faulty connection on an Iphone charger. I could hear it even though it was in a different room.

They are totally unreasonable to have the TV on all night. Do you mean literally all through the night til morning? And heating too? It's likely something to do with them - I'd speak to them again. How do they afford to have the heating on all through the night

Do you live close to any wind turbine? They can create a humming sound

Unfortunately the burglar alarm circuit installed in our house causes a hum in our garage. That space amplifies the sound and we could hear it in our living room. By boxing in the burglar alarm we have got rid of the noise.

That's what I'm thinking if you know that it is you, are you going to say that everything is off? But they are denying.

@TotallySuper yes all night I went out several times and the TV was still on at 5.30am, although since I had a word they have said that this TV will be off (but we are still feeling the vibrations and something although not as bad)

@choosername1234 no but we do live a few miles off a railway and some factories, we haven't excluded its coming from there and travelling, hard to say when the neighbours leave everything on 24/7

Could it be something further away?

I woke up repeatedly after moving into a new house. I could hear/feel a vague noise/vibration but couldn't find the cause.

It was the local water plant turning on a generator between midnight and 6am. It's half a mile away but I could still feel it. Now I sleep through, don't notice it any more.

This reminds me of a joke that has been getting trendy on social media over the past year or so.
Sounds like annoy-a-trons if you had a prankster visit your house.

With our neighbours it's their new pellet stove (I think there's some kind of fan in there)

@MintJulia we thought that just seems odd we can't feel it when they are out. How did you find out it was definitely the plant? That's what we are trying to figure out if it's something from the industrial estate. Unfortunately I'm extremely sensitive to sounds so I don't think we will ever get used to it as its been going on ages and I'm still not

I hear a hum mostly in bed at night. DH can't hear it. I'm now convinced I have some sort of tinnitus.

OP, I came home in the early hours of a very still silent frosty morning, and realised I could hear the 'hum' outside so I walked around until I found where it was coming for.

Shuddering radiator pipes

@hopeishere

I hear a hum mostly in bed at night. DH can't hear it. I'm now convinced I have some sort of tinnitus.

Mine did turn out to be tinnitus. I was cursing neighbours for having idling vehicles but it's me!

Could someone nearby have an air source heat pump or air conditioning? We get woken up by the detached neighbours one in the summer. Do they have a burglar alarm? Could it be a freezer? Nearby aeroplanes or farm machinery? We got a white noise machine and it’s been life changing

I hear a hum too, usually only at night in bed and when we moved it came with me, I was gutted as I thought I could escape it. I've even heard it outside at my old house one night when I came in late. Its not so regular at this house though thank goodness, I know all this sounds like it must be me, but I'm not convinced it is. Dh can't hear it

Water hammer in central heating pipes can be very noisy.
A water leak can make a noise that you can only hear in a silent house too. Try turning your water off at the stop cock as you may have a leak under a concrete floor.
Low frequency noise can travel quite far and the source is very hard to pinpoint.

It's not even so much the noise, we can cover that with white noise. It's the vibration in the bed, any ideas how to stop this?

We thought it may be central heating, but if it's theirs what could we do to resolve this?

They have TV speakers on laminate floor so my initial thought was it's the vibration of the speakers travelling up to us.

Feel like i'm going mad one second I'm convinced it's them then I'm not 😂