Homeowners hearing strange sounds during frigid cold weather [View all]
Frost quakes are result of contraction of home materials
BOSTON —Has your home been making strange sound in the middle of the night? The jarring frost quakes have people around New England asking, "What was that?"
A panicked Sandra Tilden, of Framingham, began to search her attic for the source of a series of loud thuds that woke her up overnight.
"It sounded like somebody dropped a wrecking ball on my roof," she said. "Then it happened three or four more times."
She's not alone.
More than 1,000 people posted on the NewsCenter 5 Facebook page to report hearing the loud noises and were glad that there was some sort of explanation as to where the sounds were coming from.
Experts call the noises thermal expansion and contraction. That means the components in your home are shrinking and expanding with extreme temperature changes, especially with the sub-zero temperatures so many of us have been experiencing recently.
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Not fun anymore.
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