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about 20-30p per cycle based on what program you use, I just googled.
So saving you around 15-20p per day. Not insignificant, over a year. Also as someone pointed out another time I mentioned this, it won't stop your dishwasher malfunctioning and catching fire, with all the disruption that would cause.... it just means you wouldn't be asleep when it happens.
YMMV but fire terrifies me. Maybe that was the intent of the FS talk when they did the smoke alarms for us, particularly having a plan that we went through with the kids when they were little* so saving 15p against that fear is just not worth it to me.
* if they hear the smoke alarms at night, put their duvet against the gap at the bottom of the door and stay in their room, someone will come for them. I paid 'a fortune' for fire resistant doors upstairs, no plywood and cardboard up there. Doors are closed at night, etc. As the fireman said, far rather that than be searching a burning house for a kid that's overcome by smoke somewhere.
Doesn’t matter what I set the ring tone too, within a few days it really grates. Even upsets the dog.
Put it on vibrate and turn the ringer off.
"MrsMC telling me all about her day at work in excruciating detail…."
I used to get this when my better half came back from work from central London on the tube.
A problem fixed instantly by getting her a bike. She forgot about work issues within a couple of minutes of hitting the road, got home quicker and was much happier by the time she got to the front door.
I drove around for a week trying to identify the tapping / rattling sound coming from the dash board.
It was a DVD rattling in it's case in the glove box.
I scoured our house several times at night trying to find a pulsing sound. Turned out to actually be MY pulse, defective hearing and lying on my ear being the cause.
So you're definitely not trapped in an Edgar Allan Poe short story then?
Mine would simply be colleagues.
People eating crunchy things in the office with their mouths open.
I swear one chick does it on purpose. She eats popcorn daily. There's been times when I've just had to leave the office and go for a walk it affects me that badly. That, or bloody crunchy apples.
I've been at my Mum's helping with some decorating. My Mum is quite frail, can't move around the house very easily or quickly so she put a lot of the freestanding lights on timeswitches to save having to actually walk over and turn them on.
The constant clicking grating noise of those drives me insane.
I would expect the smoke alarm to notice a smoking dishwasher before me unless I was in the same room, and running it at night I'm less likely to be out at work/on bike/in the garage where I can't hear it and deal with it.
Noises...
When we moved into this house sometimes in the middle of the night there would be a quiet clattering/shimmering/squeaking noise that was sort of familiar. Couldn't really hear it if I left the bedroom...turned out to be the huge ferry a couple of miles away when it's docking, the noise must get reflected in the alley between my neighbours house and us, right where our bedroom is. As soon as I worked it out I remembered the absolute racket the ship makes when you are on it and it's manoeuvring in port, feels like the whole thing is going to shake itself to bits 🙂
For months we were hearing a very sporadic odd metallic ‘drilling’ noise when in the living room and it was quiet, noticed it every now and then for months. One day I happened to be looking out the upstairs window and heard it, noticed a woodpecker on next doors chimney ‘drilling’ away at their wood burning stove top cap. It never bothered me after that. The squirrel family in the loft of the new house however…
The Mrs snoring when she's had a drink.
Sounds like a force 10 through a pin hole.
It drives me potty!!
We have a zinc roof over the bedroom and tap dancing birds. Not little tippy tap birds but pterodactyls with clogs on.
Jazz
Modern cars and the selection of beeps and bongs they give out. drives me potty. Yes I know the keys are in the ignition and the door is open. I did that deliberately you annoying nagging noisy twerp
MrsMC telling me all about her day at work in excruciating detail….
This 👆 Made worse by the fact that it's essentially the same rant. Every. Single. Day!
A problem fixed instantly by getting her a bike. She forgot about work issues within a couple of minutes of hitting the road, got home quicker and was much happier by the time she got to the front door.
I don't miss much about commuting in London, but the 25/30 minutes of 'downtime' to unwind when riding home is one of those things.
The weird pc-sounding noise I can hear in the bedroom. It totally sounds like there's a desktop machine doing hard drive stuff in a cupboard or something.
(the only downside is that the spacers themselves cost a million quid each)
Does everybody at work count?
I don’t know are you in finance?
It’s The Hum for me:
Glad I’m not the only one. Used to suffer from the hum when I lived in manc and it used to drive me mad. Not so bad now I live up in the hills but it does reappear now and again. There’s a theory that it’s caused by the wind farms when the wind is blowing at just right speed and direction.
The random, nonexistent, noises that Mrs Seadog hears when driving the car.
To give her due regard, she had a childhood of crappy cars that rarely even completed the school run, so is paranoid of all things mechanical.
She will imagine the engine "sounds different", brakes "scraping and squeaking", AC "Not right".
The sky box. Had a bit of trouble sleeping last night due to my COVID cough. So went downstairs, so as not to disturb OH.
Pair of noise cancelling headphones with a dull audio book to try and snooze. I can still hear the thing through the headphones, faint whine, bastard.
I started turning the last one off at the wall. It then started sounding like the HDD was trying to make a bid for freedom and it stopped recording stuff.
Current freezer is now 8 years old and makes sounds like constipated terminator at totally random intervals through the day and night.
I guess it will self-destruct next time we are away on vacation like the previous one did.
Not such a weird noise but constant running engines... Used to have a neighbour who would sit in his car very late at night for ages with the engine running. The things I imagined doing to him and his car!
Thankfully we've moved away. Now there's a building site over the road, they're preparing the ground for an apartment block or something. As there's around 5 diggers and other machinery sitting around they have a guard there all night long in a little hut... with a generator for electricity... chugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchugchug
Random creaking on the turbo. It’s a wheel-on one; can I work our where the noises are coming from? Can I hell.