Please tell me you have been here
I walked into the kitchen and there was a quiet but distinct background noise. I listened carefully and realised it was some kind of pump or motor that was not happy, you know that vaguely electrical/mechanical grind. Bugger, some bit of the kitchen equipment was dying.
Turn off all the easy electric stuff and walk around to determine the source. Definately near the sink. Double check the washing machine and tumble dryer as they are near but it is not them - even contemplate turning off the drinks fridge behind but we are not that desperate yet.
Okay, time for hands and knees and sticking my head into each cupboard. The noise is definately noisiest under the sink in the most awkward cupboard filled full of cleaning products, bubble bath anmd pipes that repeatedly hit you as you look around.
Weird time. The sink does not have anything like a waste disposal or any other moving parts. Dish washer and tumbler dryer are turned off and stationary. Where can the noise come from?
Sudden idea - the outside tap.
No.
Nothing for it, I will have to empty the worst cupboard in the kitchen and start dismantling it to see what is behind the casing that is making the noise. At this point I was thinking of calling a plumber/electrician/exorcist but I am so glad I didn't. Do you know why?
A bloody washing up glove had landed on our grand daughters bubble machine and switched it on. It was sat there spinning away with no bubble fluid to lubricate it.
Okay. Thank you for reading this far. You have probably wasted 15 minutes reading this, I wasted an hour finding that!
A bubble machine?
#tooposhtoblow
*steps back from witty comment about Indian burial grounds*
Next door?
#tooposhtoblow
We've all dated one....
*Awaits jimmy and his hum....*
I was assuming it was the jacuzzi pump choking on a jonny
Headless squirrel with a tiny chainsaw
Fetid sex pond pump in next door's garden?
Fetid sex pond in his own garden grum.
You have checked the taps haven't you. Not a tiny leak under pressure or anything like that?
I was going to say if not the fridge compressor then most likely a washing up glove on a bubble machine.
Is it your knees as you bend down to look search for the sound that was actually just your ears failing?
Well, you deserve it for having a bubble-blowing machine! Definitely been there, I seem to have very sensitive hearing when it's quiet and I have to track down any weird noises in the house. My wife can never hear them and just looks at me like I'm mad...
Sure it's not the drumming of impatient fingers as we await the next tensegrity chair instalment?
Is the water meter under the sink?
I poked 'n stroked till my wrist got numb
But I still didn't hear no Dinah-Moe Humm
Dinah-Moe Humm
©Frank Zappa
[i]Sure it’s not the drumming of impatient fingers as we await the next tensegrity chair instalment?[/i]
I am awaiting cable advice from a bloke who knows. I actually want to be able to use the chair for a while so will make it mostly safe.
Here's a quick picture I did for a kid to keep you amused*.
*awaits normal, stream of abuse but I didn't sell this one, I 'Let it go, let it go, LET IT GO!!!!!'
Ah, I get it, it's a Frozen reference. I thought it was a moose with its head tipped back, mouth wide open baying at the moon and kicking it's hind legs out.
Only kidding- I can't draw for toffee.
Ah, I get it, it’s a Frozen reference. I thought it was a moose with its head tipped back, mouth wide open baying at the moon and kicking it’s hind legs out
Moon. I thought it was on a rail track and that was the light of a train coming towards it.
We had this a couple of years back, could hear water running. In the end took up some floorboards in the understair cupboard and discovered a Victorian water main running under the house which had started leaking....
Water board were most suprised and initially didn't believe me. In the end they dug up the road and capped it as it didn't go anywhere...
They had to cut off the local High Street (Mill Road) as that was where it was fed from and it was too large to risk working on live.
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Bees or Wasp nests.
We have one in our roof. In the day time it sounds like rain, at night it’s a low rumble
at night it’s a low rumble
not wasps then, Rumble Bees.
My block of flats sometimes has a feint sound of a fine file being drawn over something for a few seconds then a rhythmic gentle thunk sound every few seconds later on. Only ever happened on warm days so hard to pinpoint seeing as this is Wales! Drove loads of the residents mad for years until it was found.
A workman fixing something found it a few years ago. When it's warm the pipe leading up to the water tank in the roof gets heated up and expands slowly, when the expansion gets enough it creeps through the clamps holding it in place creating the rasping sound. When it has done that and someone turns on a tap for a while then the tank tops up and cold water is pumped up the pipe causing it to contract. It's this rapid contraction that makes it pull back through with a gentle thunk. All it took to fix was to drop a bit of oil on the pipe and clamp so it now slides through silently. They tried loosening it but it then rattled! When it returns all it takes is a drop of oil on the fittings, handily in the meter cupboards on floors 1 and 3, and it goes away for a while again.
I had a similar experience in the car. Constant hum.
Much searching, much listening closely to any electrical motor in the car.
Turned out to be the game Operation being squashed by stuff in the boot.
Ha! I was convinced i had a broken spring in my old car every time i went over a bump i would get a
"Boyoyong"
one day many month later i found my nephews soft toy ball thing under my permadown back seats. Every time you get that you also get a
"Boyoyong"
First started going out with wife number two and we'd stopped in a lay by for some adult recreation when I heard a hissing noise from the back of the car. Thought "Oh shit, puncture. It'll have to wait a while."
Got out some time later and had a look around but no flat tyre and the noise had stopped. Wasn't until I opened the boot the next day that I found a tech. manual had landed on top of an aerosol of foam screen cleaner and emptied it over everything surrounding it.
Serendipitous allegory?