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Sound of Car Door Slamming JimL 08-07-2006
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Posted by sky on August 9, 2006, 5:03 am

Grandpa wrote:
> JimL wrote:
>
> > We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
> >
> > Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
> > out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
> >
> > Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
> > our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
> > there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
> >
> > We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
> >
> > This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
> > we are frustrated.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Got any livestock nearby? Could be something like one of these:
>
<http://www.gemplers.com/a/shop/product.asp?T1=G80620&UID=200608081710273904849556>
> They can lift up the door to chow down and when they withdraw, that door
> slams down sounding just like a car door.
> --
> Grandpa
>
> What is that dripping from my fingers?
> Why it looks like time.

Had a Cardinal......Protecting her territory.
Against her reflection in our storm door......

.....Sounded like a door slammin'


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Posted by krw on August 10, 2006, 11:14 pm
skyyasalon@gmail.com says...
>
> Grandpa wrote:
> > JimL wrote:
> >
> > > We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
> > >
> > > Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
> > > out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
> > >
> > > Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
> > > our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
> > > there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
> > >
> > > We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
> > >
> > > This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
> > > we are frustrated.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Got any livestock nearby? Could be something like one of these:
> >
<http://www.gemplers.com/a/shop/product.asp?T1=G80620&UID=200608081710273904849556>
> > They can lift up the door to chow down and when they withdraw, that door
> > slams down sounding just like a car door.
> > --
> > Grandpa
> >
> > What is that dripping from my fingers?
> > Why it looks like time.
>
> Had a Cardinal......Protecting her territory.
> Against her reflection in our storm door......

I woke up one morning to the sound of someone trying to break into
the house. The Cedar-Waxwings were attacking the ornamental cherry
out front and got drunk. They were trying to comfit mass suicide
by flying into the bay window in the livingroom. Dumb alkies! ;-)

>
> .....Sounded like a door slammin'

...more like Hagar breaking into a castle.

--
Keith

Posted by Handi on August 9, 2006, 6:17 am
Wow, this posting has had an unusual amount of replies. Here's my two
cents...

How is you home heated? How old is your house? How often and when do the
noises occur?

I've heard a variety of noises from heating systems caused by air in
baseboard heating radiators, air in the water pipes and air ducts expanding
& contracting. It also could be the house settling through the day.

No, I don't think barnyard animals are borrowing you car and you house isn't
haunted.

Handi_ca



Posted by sky on August 11, 2006, 5:10 am

JimL wrote:
> We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
>
> Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
> out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
>
> Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
> our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
> there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
>
> We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
>
> This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
> we are frustrated.
>
> Any ideas?

Well, JimL..........any luck so far?.......


Posted by scorrpio on August 11, 2006, 8:25 am

sky Wrote:
> JimL wrote:-
> Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
> out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
>
> We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
>
> Any ideas?-
>

Sounds like a damper. In an HVAC duct, in a flue, range hood, dryer
exhaust, bathroom fan, attic ventilation maybe. A damper by itself is
just a rather small piece of aluminum hinged in a duct/vent, but when it
slams, the surrounding pipe can give echoes/reverb. Normally, these
dampers have rubber stops to cushion them, but looks like a stop might
have worn out.

Next time noise occurs, instead of running out to look for cars,
concentrate on remembering what did you recently do in the house.
Used a bathroom? Been cooking? Etc.




--
scorrpio

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