My house hums and it's driving me crazy

[WhiteGrapeandPeachJuice]

Does anyone else's house hum??? Like a low level electrical buzz constantly. Not coming from any particular or obvious appliances. Just present everywhere.

At night if I wake up that's all I can hear. It's like a tinnitus sound (I don't have tinnitus although i am sensitive to sound and energy), and so the vibration of the sound means earplugs don't do a thing. I can hear it in every room.

As I sit here now in the kitchen having been awake most of the night I can hear it.

I am sure its not my hearing as in other places I don't hear this at all. It's just that my house feels like it has a vibration that is literally tormenting me!

Anyone else encountered this and found a solution?

Have you tried switching your electric off at the meter to see if sound remains? If yes then it must be coming from neighbour or outside. If it stops then i would then off each appliance to try and isolate the source

You need an electrician to come and investigate where the loose connection is. It is a fire risk to have loose wires, so do it soon.

We thought we had an electrical hum one time.....it was a bees' nest!

I’d try turning the electric off too. Can you hear it in your garden or just outside the house too? Are you sure it’s not your boiler or WiFi or something else that’s on all the time?

Probably not this because you can’t hear it everywhere, but there’s a thing called The Hum -en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

I think that turning the electrics off is a good shout. If it stops then I’d be calling an electrician out to come and have a look.

If electrical, less obvious causes could be the oven clock, electric toothbrush chargers, light switches. They’d usually be very quiet though.

Overhead power cables nearby? Can you hear it outside the house?

Do you live in a semi or detached?

I had this problem, turned off all power etc. The source was never found. It was so loud at times, and worse at night. I moved and I hear it intermittently in my new property, thankfully not constantly as I used to. I think some of us are unluckily sensitive to it.

I had a hover fly nest in a bathroom wall panel once. It created a low hum particularly at night

I had this and it was pipes rubbing against each other it drove me mad and no one else could hear it. I managed to wedge bits of foam between the worst offenders

Same here! Wasp nest.

Thank you for all your responses. I've actually got an electrician in the family so I'll ask him to come round to have a look. It's a low level vibration that I can feel in my body as well as hear.. I think I'm just ultra sensitive to things like this. Wondering about the impact of EMFs (electro-magnetic fields) and how to mediate/protect against these.

If it's a newish house it can be the positive pressure pump they put in now for ventilation etc.

Detached but lots of houses in close proximity. Like a new(ish) build estate

I don’t hear it but DH does. It nearly drove him mad when it started. Once he established the noise wasn’t from inside the house, he drove around the locality at night looking for the source of the noise which he was convinced was diesel engines. He can hear it now. All I can hear is birds singing.

He dealt with it by just accepting it. It isn’t in his head because he doesn’t hear it everywhere, just where we live.

Thanks for this. Who would I be able to check this with?

Same! We had a bees nest in the loft above DDs bedroom. We thought it was an electric hum for days before we saw bees flying outside and clicked.

Turn the main electricity switch off and see if the noise stops.

does anyone have a hot tub near you?

Thanks I'll try this later.

Not that I'm aware of. We have tiny gardens!

Oh yes, hot tubs are the worst! My neighbour 2 doors and an alleyway away has theirs on in the summer.

On EMFs - there’s grounding mats you can get, and lots of walking outside barefoot is good for you (on the earth - soil/grass/sand, not concrete-man made material).

I often hear a low level hum. It’s not my house. I’m just sensitive to something outside. Some people are. It can drive me nuts but I’m learning to live with it.

I can hear this in my house and I do think it's a neighbour's hot tub on the rinse cycle at night.

The boiler used to be on continuous pumping too, after it was installed, but I worked that out and changed the settings.