Sounds In Attic At Night

While most nocturnal animals leave your attic at night rodents tend to stay and can be heard throughout the entire space.

Sounds in attic at night.

No that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic. Rats and mice are the most likely culprits for noises in your walls at night. They prefer to exit and enter at sunup and sundown under dusky conditions. There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to call in the pros.

Many night sounds are likely to be from mice and rats. This has been occurring every night around the same time between 1am and 2am. I have called pest control and have looked up there my self when this is happening and still nothing. If it s the fall or.

How about the location of the sound. Some pests get into the walls of your home. The noise you hear is not from settling but from wood framing members moving in relation to one another. The wood warms during the day losing moisture and shrinking slightly.

The time you hear it is a big clue. Sounds coming from your attic could be from a number of causes pipes settling wind but the most common cause is the presence of an animal or animals in the attic. Mice and rats primarily make scratching sounds both when they move around and when they are rearranging their nests. While it s probably not ghosts going bump in the night in the attic there are a number possible things that could make a banging sound above the living area.

Many of the species that you have in your attic are nocturnal and are more likely to be active at night. Bats may be heard if they have to move from a daytime roosting area to an exit point. This includes raccoons bats mice rats and flying squirrels. The attic isn t the only place rodents and other creatures seek shelter.

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. If the noise is during the day especially in the early morning or evening before sunset then it s almost surely squirrels. Since rodents don t weigh much you typically don t hear them until they start clawing or scratching. Heat and cold make can make ducts and.