Something's ticking in my house..

YellowFeather · 23-12-2013 11:18PM #1

Just got home from my last day in work this year to find something in my house is ticking. Now, I had a few beers, but not enough to cause random hallucinogenic ticking. It's not a clock and it's not the heating. WTF???

Professey Chin · 23-12-2013 11:18PM

Kaboom

humbert · 23-12-2013 11:20PM

Radiator heating?

McChubbin · 23-12-2013 11:20PM

Reminded me of this!

23-12-2013 11:20PM

It's the clockwork men from madame de pompadour

Femme_Fatale · 23-12-2013 11:20PM

A cable or branch outside tapping against the window because of the wind? I used to be trying to figure out what a ticking in my place was too, and that was the answer.

Eeden · 23-12-2013 11:21PM

A leak in the ceiling?

The Backwards Man · 23-12-2013 11:22PM

It's your biological clock.

Run outside and ride somebody, quick!!

SeanPuddin · 23-12-2013 11:22PM

This bastard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathwatch_beetle

Thought I was losing my mind...

23-12-2013 11:23PM

chrismon · 23-12-2013 11:23PM

Do you have an analogue time clock for your heating?
It could be that

DazMarz · 23-12-2013 11:24PM

Bomb. 100%.

YellowFeather · 23-12-2013 11:24PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

A cable or branch outside tapping against the window because of the wind? I used to be trying to figure out what a ticking in my place was too, and that was the answer.

Nah - at first I thought it was rain, but it's not raining.

YellowFeather · 23-12-2013 11:25PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's your biological clock.

Run outside and ride somebody, quick!!

No. It's cold outside.

The Backwards Man · 23-12-2013 11:25PM

bluewolf wrote: »

scary puppets

I just watched that with the sound down. Very disturbing.

ShatterProof · 23-12-2013 11:26PM

Timer switch

anncoates · 23-12-2013 11:28PM

Tinnitus

Aestivalis · 23-12-2013 11:29PM

Skrrk! Skrrk! Skrrk!

garde2k10 · 23-12-2013 11:30PM

McChubbin wrote: »

Reminded me of this!

was just about to link it haha

TeddyTedson · 23-12-2013 11:30PM

You're so broody this time of year.
Don't have kids though, you'll become no craic after you do

zenno · 23-12-2013 11:30PM

I think I have found what your ticking noise is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_jeddgH8SU

YellowFeather · 23-12-2013 11:31PM

Well, no, it's not the heating. That was the first thing I checked. Heating on or or off it's still going. Doesn't seem to be coming from attic either. Sounds like a kid hitting a stick off another stick right inside my front door. And I took those fecking sticks off that stupid kid.

YellowFeather · 23-12-2013 11:33PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

You're so broody this time of year.
Don't have kids though, you'll become no craic after you do

Says the man knitting pink booties..

Archeron · 23-12-2013 11:34PM

Listen very carefully to where it's coming from, and just as you've almost narrowed it down....it will stop. I remember this from when I lived in an in old house when I was a kid, used to freak me out. Haven't heard someone mention it in yonks.