Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: GUEST,Imp Date: 24 Apr 05 - 09:29 PM wussies! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Apr 05 - 09:18 PM It's the Pixies! Run Away! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Rapparee Date: 24 Apr 05 - 09:12 PM Did you ever consider that it might be a very tiny fiddler with very big feet who is playing a set for very tiny dancers? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Apr 05 - 07:59 PM ... and write computer programs ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Apr 05 - 12:01 PM "Repeating a behaviour expecting different results" is surely how most of us learned to play musical instruments. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Richard in Manchester Date: 24 Apr 05 - 11:43 AM Einstein also said that without ideas that seem ridiculous at first, there is no innovation. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Bobert Date: 24 Apr 05 - 07:54 AM Yo, GUEST, Sibelius, What brucie has said above is probably the culprit... Aeeing as it is getting warmer out there is less contraction in the hot water pipe from ambiant (outside) temperatures... It hasn't really gona a way at all but will be back next fall as the temperatures cool down... You can correct this by wrapping your hot water pipes with a foam insulation tubes which are cheap... Oh course you may have to hire a kid to crawl unner the house to install them... Or not and then you can refresh this thread in 6 months??? Einstien: "Insanity is repeating a behavior expecting different results..." Good luck either way... Bobert |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Ebbie Date: 23 Apr 05 - 07:53 PM Oh dear; you think? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Apr 05 - 07:48 PM The tiny invisible elves from the CIA came and replaced the battery while you were asleep. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Ebbie Date: 23 Apr 05 - 11:44 AM Yep. Since my bedside clock is electrical I would have known. I really have no idea what the beeping was. What it reminded me most of was a low battery warning, but the only battery in the vicinity was in the phone- and the sound didn't come from there. And why did it stop?? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:42 PM Uninterruptible Power Supply. You would surely know what it was if you had one for your PC. I also have one for my TV/Video - power outages mean that the things have to be reprogrammed! and when on standby, they will be sustained for a couple of hours - also I can watch 15 mins more TV before it gives out. :-) They will normally reset and stop beeping when the power comes nack on, but you should have known if you had a power failure... Never, ever send anything to Australia via UPS, they break things (like playing football with accordions!) then always deny the insurance claims. Also no Queensland office, and they rely on independent contractors to make delivery from Sydney. Use the USPS (who link up Australlia Post) - The Australian Post Office takes far more care, especially at this end, and UPS are no faster and often more expensive. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Ebbie Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:30 PM Nope. Forgot to mention that I checked both smoke detectors in the vicinity. Besides, it wasn't a chirpburble. It was a beep beep! I very purposefully missed seeing 'The Exorcist'. The promos were enough for me. No pipes. Foolestroupe, what is a UPS? I'm guessing that it's an internet server? In the States, UPS is a courier service- I would be VERY surprised if they showed up at my door in the middle of the night. Yep. I guess Rapaire is correct. Ho hum. See how blase* I am? *G* *Insert mark |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:18 PM It could have been a smoke detector in another room, but they normally beep for ages before the battery dies, unless you had a cheap battery in it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Peace Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:10 PM Hot water pipe expanding and contracting. Either that or--well, did you ever see "The Exorcist"? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Rapparee Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:04 PM Aye, 'tis the hauntings, 'tis. 'Tis the ghosties who come out to possess your electronic things, 'tis those who have passed over trying to tell us things, things of great import, things that we need to know. 'Tis the Tommyknockers and the Kobolds, e'en the Banshee herself, trying to break through the electronic cage we've surrounded ourselves with. Are you sure it wasn't a smoke detector? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM Ah! My UPS wakes me up in the night when I get a power outage - I have 2 in the house - both 2 rooms away in different directions, and I can hear both, thru walls and closed doors. It seems the pitch carries well, even at low volume. But you would have known of a general power outage. I have found though that occasionally one of the little beasties gets upset for apparently no good reason, no power outage, etc. Just switching it off and turning it off at the wall then back on, and waiting a few minutes before restarting this UPS makes it happy. I have never known mine to reset by itself though. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: GUEST, Ebbie Date: 22 Apr 05 - 11:30 AM No. The computer is two rooms away, kat. I think Rapaire must be right. LOL At this moment I'm surprised that I eventually left the mystery and went to bed. Not usually a good idea, because physical things have physical causes and when one doesn't know what the cause is, one should keep looking until one does know. (Follow that?) In the bedroom, the only electrical/electronic things are: 1 phone line; one phone; one electric clock; an electrical power strip; a lamp... That's it. Judging by an ear held close to each of those things, the beep beep didn't emanate from any of them. beep beep! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: katlaughing Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:14 AM Ebbie, anything to do with your computer? We have a somethingorother which does that when theres a split second blip in the power; it's not a power surge strip thing. I cannot remember what it is called, at the moment, but it drove us nuts the first time because we couldn't figure out where it was coming from!*bg* |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:49 AM I don't smoke, Ebbie, even after sex... I've looked! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Rapparee Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:10 PM Ebbie, it was the low battery signal for the bugging devices. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Ebbie Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:28 PM No cigar, Foolestroupe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:10 PM The battery has expired on your pacemaker? Hello? Hello? You still there? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Ebbie Date: 21 Apr 05 - 07:57 PM Glad it stopped, Sibelius. Do you know what caused it? Did it change over the months? No tapping, but the other night I got out of bed rhree times because every three minutes or so there was an electronic-sounding beep beep! At first I thought it was a low battery in my phone, so I disconnected it, both the phone cord and the electricity connection. Went back to bed in great satisfaction. And then beep beep! Got out of bed again and stood stock still. Ascertained it was not the smoke alarm, and not the other phone, which was not even connected in the first place. It sounded like it came from the floor. Moved two chairs, examined behind the drapes, checked the bedside table surface, checked my bedside clock. beep beep! Went back to bed. beep beep! Got ear plugs. Went back to bed. Still have no idea what it was. Haven't heard it since. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: GUEST,Sibelius Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:18 PM Hey..... it's stopped! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Nov 03 - 06:43 AM The original Sibelius did write an opera called "The Maiden in the Tower" - not your standard Sibelius either: "the lustful Bailiff (baritone) has seized the virginal Maiden (soprano), and imprisoned her in the castle tower. The noble retainers think the worst, and disown her, but the Lover (tenor) still believes in her innocence. He comes to rescue her, and draws his sword against the Bailiff..." Nothing in it about things under the floorboards, so far as I know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Bassic Date: 28 Nov 03 - 06:29 AM Is that your Fin(a)l(andia)comment on the subject Dave? *groan* |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Dave Bryant Date: 28 Nov 03 - 05:56 AM Perhaps the monster ate Sibelius as a desert - you know a sort of Karelia sweet. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Bassic Date: 27 Nov 03 - 08:22 PM .............100!!!!!!!!!!! :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Bassic Date: 27 Nov 03 - 08:21 PM ..............tap...................... |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Bassic Date: 27 Nov 03 - 08:20 PM This is irisistable..........tap |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 27 Nov 03 - 08:03 PM Omigod! the tapping noise (thread) is back! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: artbrooks Date: 27 Nov 03 - 08:03 PM Dragged off into the underfloor and eaten. Never to be seen again by the eyes of mankind. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Nov 03 - 07:44 PM Over a month now and no word. And it was only a couple of days before Halloween too... |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Dave Bryant Date: 27 Nov 03 - 07:29 AM Whoops - can't - she/he is a Guest. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Dave Bryant Date: 27 Nov 03 - 07:28 AM What gender is Sibelius - I got the retort Hey, whaddya mean "calls himself..."?? earlier on in this thread which makes me think that said catter is female. Sibelius lives in Manchester, so does Noreen or any other catter from the area have any more details ? I will PM Sibelius - to find out more. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Bassic Date: 27 Nov 03 - 06:20 AM Any news? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Nov 03 - 11:04 AM Jane Yolen wrote a short story called "The Babysitter" (they've read it on Selected Shorts) that deals with things that go thump in the night. Maybe he didn't do the correct routine upon entering the house the last time? SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Amos Date: 08 Nov 03 - 09:39 AM He didn't think he would need a weapon when he lifted the floorboards to find the source of the tapping. And since then, not a sign. One floorboard is a bit loose, but ... nothing but silence. The Inspectors are baffled. They assume he went off, p'raps to Argentina. Maybe a love interest. They say they are still investigating, but I don't think they are very serious about it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: JennyO Date: 08 Nov 03 - 09:11 AM Ooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh! The gremlins under the floorboards got him! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 06 Nov 03 - 12:33 PM Last time Sibelius posted anywhere on the Mudcat was 25th October... |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Peterr Date: 06 Nov 03 - 12:06 PM I'm getting nervous about Sibelius's welfare. Has the mysterious noise got him, or has he decided the story has gone on long enough? |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Penny S. Date: 25 Oct 03 - 03:26 PM Are you detached? Semi or terrace? I have spent a day hearing noises upstairs which have travelled from work done below my downstairs floor (I'm in a two floor maisonette over a flat). I know that sounds travel very oddly laterally as well. I also get sounds from within boards, because mine were cut with the grain curving through them in such a way that they bend. Not like your sounds, though. Is there any particular time that they happen? Is it unusually dry in Manchester at the moment? My boards creak more in different weathers, though I haven't correlated them well yet. Penny |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: GUEST,Sibelius Date: 25 Oct 03 - 03:09 AM Little Hawk, I did consider suggesting to Clinton that he try out some of the ideas from this thread to get rid of his skunk, but I was afraid of being accused of self-indulgently spotlighting my own thread! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Oct 03 - 12:25 AM The floorboard tapping noise is the skunk trying to get Clinton Hammond to stop making offensive noises in the middle of the day! (check other thread about "Getting a skunk out from under the porch") |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: LadyJean Date: 24 Oct 03 - 11:57 PM In the spirit of Halloween I have just been reading up on the Fox Sisters. Sibelius, try saying, "Mr. Splitfoot do as I do." then clapping your hands four times. If you hear four taps in response, either there's a spirit in the house, or someone is cracking their toes. (Which is how one Fox sister claimed they made the noises.) Quite seriously, I'd try the terrier. My sister has a terrier mix, (Part yorkie, part jack russell, part your guess is as good as mine.) shortly after the beastie took up residence, she killed a rat that had been living in the kitchen. A friend had bats in her attic. Someone offered a black persian cat, called the Ayatollah Kitty Meini to take care of the bats. In "Rats in the Walls" an American living in his ancestral home in England finds that his forbearers bred a race of subhuman creatures, that still inhabit the walls of the house. Bleah! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Blowzabella Date: 24 Oct 03 - 05:49 PM Completely irrelevant but katlaughing's 'terror-ier' just reminded me of a local council election, when a sweet, moderately elderly lady, who had long represented her ward, and done all that a good councillor should do (including supporting music festivals) didn't proof read her election material very well. Instead of saying that she bred irish terriors it said she bred irish terriosts! She still got elected... |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: katlaughing Date: 24 Oct 03 - 04:04 PM Leave it to a terror-ier to get to the bottom of a mystery! Go, Peggy'O, Go!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: Amos Date: 24 Oct 03 - 03:40 PM Well if he puts his ears back and growls and the hair on his neck stands up, call an exorcist.... :>) A |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: GUEST,Sibelius Date: 24 Oct 03 - 03:32 PM It's pretty much random, katlaughing. Doesn't seem to make any difference what time of day it is, central heating/water on or off, light or dark, even my singing doesn't stop it. A friend has just come up with a brilliant idea though, which I may try this weekend. There's a highly inquisitive Patterdale terrier of our acquaintance, Peggy, not a mile away from here. Peggy is known for her unerring search-and-destroy capabilities. She usually destroys things which weren't remotely intended for destruction, it has to be said, but on this occasion I might just be inclined to invite her round and let her have her head. |
Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be From: katlaughing Date: 24 Oct 03 - 03:09 PM Is there a specific time at which it always happens or, is it random? That might help to pinpoint what it could be. Barring anything corporeal, I'd get some sage smudge sticks/incense and smudge the whole place, along with doing a ritual "leavetaking" for whomever/whatever might be hanging about. Oh, and your mystery writing was fine...I got the under-the-floor grabbing just didn't think there'd be much point in answering as you been "got" and presumably would be unable to return!**bg** |