Low Frequency Vibration/Humming in The House

[Obelix 11]

Hello people,

 

This is not a thread about wether the phenomenon known as 'The Hum' is real or simply tinnitus.

 

I didn't think this was in doubt any more since they had found the cause in some instances - I can probalby find the reference if people are interested.. As to what the cause is in all places that's still to be answered of course..

 

It is about if anyone would like to experience the Hum to find out if you can hear it or not, as some people claim to hear it and others not. There are already some threads on this website about it.

 

I have been hearing this sound since i moved to my current house and it's losing me many hours of sleep... Im sure its getting louder, more powerful by the night. In the day i can only hear it in my house. But from the hours approx 1am- 5am when the ambient noises are at there lowest volume i can hear it out side just as loud, if not louder. I have not heard this sound anywhere else that Im aware of.

 

As my name suggests I live in Crooks at the very top near the old police hut.

 

I once lodged as a student in Tapton Hall, on the wing that looks out away from the Old Grindstone. One cold utterly still winter night I could clearly hear a deep throbbing noise, and was able to identify it instantly as one of the compressors from the Hicks building that used to provide liquid nitrogen - it had a distinctive noise. The sound was ducting up through cold dense air that was pooling in the bowl that Sheffield makes.

 

If you walked uphill on to Crosspool past the Grindstone the sound suddenly went quiet, as the air temperature climbed by a few degrees in perhaps a matter of 100 meters of walking. Dipping back into the cold layer coming down the Ranmoor side of the hill you could hear the sound come back as the air temperature fell sharply.

 

If any one else experiences this please PM me, and more importantly if anyone knows the correct authorities to report this to or someone with some sensitive recording tech to maybe arrange to meet up and back my recordings up. Skeptics are more than welcome aslong as they don't troll on here. I will send my recordings via PM if you wish.

 

I'd be interested to hear them.

[phawley 10]

Weird! This is exactly the same as something I've recently noticed but I'm in Chapeltown.

 

Is your hum constant or does it go on and off in a sort of rhythm? Mine's the latter but the odd thing is I only ever hear it in bed at night, never during the day.

 

A bit late to reply to your post Rickie but I also hear the same as you in Chapeltown, I thought I had found it when I discovered my next door neighbour had a tumble drier in her shed but that was dispelled when it continued whilst she was on a two week holiday.

[CrooksWizard 10]

The two masts are a concern and my primary suspicion, where i live I am parallel to the antennas and i live maybe 800 yards from them,i.e I am the same height as the white tube thingy ma bobs(could this be pshycological because i can see them?). I agree with the post about walking up the road the volume get worse. It hits me like a ton of bricks when I get out of my car late at night.

I have informed the council of my concerns - they said they cannot do anything to investigate if i cannot complain about a particular household or business. They said a expert would get back to me-doubt that will happen.

 

So I have the Hum on my iTunes How do I get it on here?

 

P.S This is just speculation so please don't shout at me, but Im sure it started when they was bringing in 3G last year and Im sure it has got worse Since 4G has started being transmitted.

 

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So, since the last time I posted on here I have been to the doctors about my ears. Before I went (not knowing if i would be wasting the docs time,which i really dont wanna do) I took the bold step off knocking on a few of my neighbours doors and introducing my self properly and asked what must have seemed like a strange question ' do you hear a strange noise late at night' most said they didnt but my immediate neighbours, the semi attached to ours looked like they had seen a ghost. The man who had been living there some good 10 years said he could hear the low frequency 'hum' but his wife didnt..just like our house. My wife also seemed shocked as she doesn't hear, feel this thing either. we got talking although he seemed to be accustomed the the low frequency hum in the wee hours of the night.

 

so ive downloaded and bought some stuff from this website about EMF protection.I realise that these sites often use scaremongering to sell very expensive products but Im at my wits end with this thing.. .. have a google and see for your self.

 

mean while check out this very good documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E31vNK19e0A

 

So I went to the docs and I have to go back to get some wax out in a fortnight.

[Fee Fee 10]

I live in a semi. My neighbours are telling me that there is a noise which sounds like a central heating pump is coming from a) my living room 2) my bedroom and now 3) my back bedroom. They are becoming angry and nasty. I have invited the husband in my home whilst this so called noise was 'unbearable' in there house. My house was silent. I hear my pump when in operation and it just hums. Surely if the noise was coming from my house, I would hear it, wouldn't I????

[geared 311]

Unless the sound was being transmitted towards their house somehow, like the pump was bolted to the party wall or something.

 

Either way I seriously doubt it's the pump for the heating, it'd have to be totally knackered to make that much noise to disturb your neighbours - and you'd hear that for sure.

 

Low frequency noise is very omi-directional, so it's more than likely coming from a completely different direction and they are having trouble locating the source of the noise.

 

It could be something like a generator running in a factory/workplace, or a large fan running in an industrial complex - it could be anything to be fair!!

[Jace 10]

Just on the off chance, you don't have an old fashioned door bell do you?

 

Mine is a coil magnet type and the hum drives me mad!

[Cyclone 10]

Hehe, well, this is an old thread.

 

I did move.

 

Gets me away from the hum of the shop fridge next door, and the crying baby on the other side.

 

I can now sometimes hear a hum from the tram terminus if I have the windows open, or on a quiet night, I can hear my NAS and the Virgin+ box downstairs, until they shut themselves down around midnight.

 

Guess I'm just noise sensitive :-)

[Fee Fee 10]

I live in a semi. My neighbours are telling me that there is a noise which sounds like a central heating pump is coming from a) my living room 2) my bedroom and now 3) my back bedroom. They are becoming angry and nasty. I have invited the husband in my home whilst this so called noise was 'unbearable' in there house. My house was silent. I hear my pump when in operation and it just hums. Surely if the noise was coming from my house, I would hear it, wouldn't I????

 

Unless the sound was being transmitted towards their house somehow, like the pump was bolted to the party wall or something.

 

Either way I seriously doubt it's the pump for the heating, it'd have to be totally knackered to make that much noise to disturb your neighbours - and you'd hear

 

Low frequency noise is very omi-directional, so it's more than likely coming from a completely different direction and they are having trouble locating the source of the noise.

 

It could be something like a generator running in a factory/workplace, or a large fan running in an industrial complex - it could be anything to be fair!!

 

 

 

Thanks for confirming what I thought

[fasbourn 10]

Have had the same problem. Turned out to be vibrations caused when the wind is blowing in a certain directiuon over the TV ariel on chimney stack thus causing vibrations down party wall. Cant be heard outside.

All that was required was brackets to be tightened.

[RnB_Plumbing 10]

a lot of fridge freezers do this

[nuttycow13 10]

Can anyone else hear The Humming, a persistent, low-frequency noise that i can hear all day but louder at night when all is quiet .. Seems to virate through the walls and can hear in all rooms .. Turned off the power in my flat so it not any of my electrics .. Had housing officer out who heard it but done nothing ! Its driving me up the wall .. Theres not only me that hears it so can my partner .. But tge people in downstairs flat say they cant hear anything .. Just wondwred anyone else is being kept awake by it ?

[Victoria1867 10]

Laid awake in S6 near the stadium as all I can hear is a soft humming noise. It sounds like a fan or an electrical appliance with a fan. Stuck my head out of the bedroom window and it's definitely just in the air in S6 and really loud. Any ideas?