We had a stud wall put in a year ago to divide a large room into two, and in the last few weeks it's started ticking! Not as much as creaking - sounds more like the wall is settling a bit, but it's very annoying because it's in a bedroom, as much as every second, and it's loud enough to keep us awake. It did coincide with the warmer weather starting, but it doesn't seem to make any difference whether it's hot or cool outside, and it's constant, happens round the clock. Any thoughts?! Ideas how we can stop it? Thanks.
There was a identical thread on here a few years ago. http://community.screwfix.com/threads/central-heating-pipes-ticking-clicking.126055/
Thanks yes I saw that thread - so it could be that even though we've only one pipe cutting across one bottom corner of the wall and in a completely different place to the noise, the pipe expanding / contracting could make the plasterboard move a tiny bit because it's attached to the pipe with the plaster layer, and that cause it to "tick"?
You haven't mislaid an alarm clock by any chance or been watching Sky Living at 9 o' clock on Sundays!
Many things are said in jest, my first thoughts were wood boring insect attack........seriously not joking!
But how would it get there? If you saw where we live (urban part of London, third floor ex-council block) it seems unlikely. The stud work was all new timber a year ago and there's no other wood in the flat - unless there's an insect that lives and breeds in Travis Perkins and hides in the wood til it's safe to come out?! (you'll tell me now that there is, ugh...). Plus there's only ever one click noise in one place at a time, rather than lots (she says, hopefully)
Yup, along with my missing alarm clock and the previously mentioned family of insects... No wonder we can't get any sleep.
It's not new timber you have as it's been growing for a number of years prior to processing, the larva eat the wood to get out which takes a while, the ticking noise described by yourself sounds typical of a beetle attack, either that or you have a hot water pipe running through the studwork that's too tight fit and expanding causing the ticking noise.
Can you contact the person who built the wall for you and see if they recall/have plans of it to see if its is a pipe issue, and if not call pest control?
Read this particularly as you are in London . Seriously. http://www.rentokil.co.uk/woodworm/species/ Pipes clicking would only be intermittent when they were expanding or contracting
Have you read Peter Pan might be a crocodile! I suspect if it does not contain pipes it is just the stud wall expanding slightly as the room heats up, same thing happens on plastic gutters when the sun heats them.
Yes guilty as charged I misread the post Still might be a Crocodile though Be very surprised if it is an infestation as it is only a year old.
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