Daytime noise especially in the morning or evening.
Clicking noise in attic at night.
Frequent clicking sounds from a furnace or air conditioner often mean an electrical relay is malfunctioning.
Both mice and rats make scratching sounds in an attic.
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Clicking knocking and clanking no that s not the sound of chains rattling in the attic.
Likely culprits are rats mice grey squirrels and flying squirrels.
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.
One problem that could be causing a popping sound in your walls or in the attic is pests.
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.
Grinding noise in the attic grinding noises are likely to be made by some type of rodent.
Mating adults will squeal.
At night attic can sometime make loud creaking and cracking sounds.
Fast scampering medium volume usually in the attic.
Noises in the attic scratching sounds at night squirrels.
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.
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.
You ll hear these pests more at night as they re looking for food although colder temperatures also increases activity.
There are a few possible sources for this sound but none of them ghostly or even worrying enough to call.
A nest of baby raccoons.
While rodents and other critters can make a variety of noises the more likely cause is something else inside your home.
Grinding noises are made as rodents chew woodwork.
A clicking noise in particular could be caused by your heater.
Heavy walking or thumping.
During a bad storm or excessive cold it may hunker down at another location to wait out the bad weather.
It can ofter sound as if the roof is broken in some way or the roof is going to collapse.