If you hear thumping in your attic at night it s most likely a larger animal such as a raccoon or opossum engaged in jumping from one area of the attic to another actively shoving or destroying something or dragging something heavy.
Clicking noise in attic at night.
A nest of baby raccoons.
Frequent clicking sounds from a furnace or air conditioner often mean an electrical relay is malfunctioning.
A clicking noise in particular could be caused by your heater.
It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse.
During a bad storm or excessive cold it may hunker down at another location to wait out the bad weather.
This too requires a call to an hvac pro but the repair bill shouldn t be much greater than the basic service call rate usually less than 100.
Noises in the attic scratching sounds at night squirrels.
Grinding noises are made as rodents chew woodwork.
Mating adults will squeal.
Likely culprits are rats mice grey squirrels and flying squirrels.
Fast scampering medium volume usually in the attic.
Clicking knocking and clanking no that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic.
At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds.
Or it could go dormant if its really cold kind of like hibernating so there would be no sound if they re not active even if they re up there.
Both mice and rats make scratching sounds in an attic.
So if something is using your attic one night it does not mean it will be there every night.
You ll hear these pests more at night as they re looking for food although colder temperatures also increases activity.
Heavy walking or thumping.
Mice rats birds or other animals may have entered the home and are chewing digging and pecking on the interior of your home from the attic or inside the walls.
What s that clicking noise in my attic at night.
One problem that could be causing a popping sound in your walls or in the attic is pests.
Grinding noise in the attic grinding noises are likely to be made by some type of rodent.
There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to call.
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