BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be

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: 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: 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: GUEST,Sibelius
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:18 PM

Hey..... it's stopped!

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: 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 - 08:28 PM

No cigar, Foolestroupe.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 10:42 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: 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: 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 - 07:53 PM

Oh dear; you think?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 09:18 PM

It's the Pixies!


Run Away!

Subject: RE: BS: Floorboard tapping noise: what can it be
From: GUEST,Imp
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 09:29 PM

wussies!