• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    My recliner makes a creaking noise whenever I fully recline it. The other day I was napping in it, fully reclined already, when I heard the creaking noise. Way to fucking ruin a great nap.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    the pitty patter of little squirrel feet on the roof for instance. mean i have more tree trimming to do.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      19 hours ago

      My problem is that my landlord would make random unscheduled visits with his dogs. I assumed it was him or his dog. It was a home invader, who found the front door unlocked. My landlord left it unlocked. I know it was him, because I parked in the back and never used the front door.

      • wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org
        18·
        13 hours ago

        You probably know by now but the landlord just entering your rented space is illegal in many countries. In many parts of the world you can change the lock even so only you have access.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
        20·
        17 hours ago

        My cat once deterred a home intruder back when I lived in a very shitty first floor apartment across the street from several very cheap bars. I had a rack of DVD’s by the front door next to a small table like area where I’d put my keys. My cat would be sitting there when I got home, or when outside sounds got interesting, and occasionally he would knock over that DVD rack when he’d leap away, especially if a loud sound scared him.

        then one time I got home to a busted lock and a slightly open door. I tried to run in, but that dvd rack had fallen forward from him kicking off of it, bounced off the wall, and landed between the door and the wall, essentially wedging it closed. I had to hulk it open, crushing the dvd rack, but that had kept the intruder from actually getting in. My cat was panting in panic, so it probably happened only minutes before I got there. I made sure that cat lived like a king for 15 more years.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 hours ago

      And then be tripple worried that some of those sounds will be the sounds of something expensive breaking

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    6·
    17 hours ago

    My landlord had to cut a hole in my bathroom roof, and they taped plastic over the hole promising to come back later and patch it. Every time there’s an air draft the plastic rustles, and since I had forgotten all about it I was half convinced I was haunted.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      I once rented a 2BR apartment and a couple of months in my landlord removed one of the bedrooms. It was like pulling teeth but I finally got him to lower my rent by $50.

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    36·
    1 day ago

    Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn’t.

    After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.

    • dakelite@piefed.zipEnglish
      7·
      11 hours ago

      One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.

      Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
      17·
      17 hours ago

      My cat actually saved me from a break in by straight up attacking the dude.

      I was sleeping on the couch in my trailer and suddenly woke up to my cat yowling and some dude screaming and by the time I realized what was going on the guy had already run out the door with my cat right behind him.

      Kitty cut deep too cause there was blood spatter on the door frame where dude grabbed it while running away.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Good for you. My cats would be cowering in the basement under the bed. They are scared of people. My dog on the other hand would alert the entire neighborhood to the existence of the break-in. But she’s a 17 lbs dog, and would be scared of the thief, so she’d then just let them steal whatever they want.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
      44·
      1 day ago

      I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I’ll hear something and think “ah, it’s just the cat” and go back to sleep without checking.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      5·
      19 hours ago

      My house is almost 100 years old, and so I hear my cat when he’s coming up the stairs, and I get robbed of the extra 60s before he just starts meowing. He’s an old man now, 15 or so, and so he spends the nights inside now, and he’s not a fan. He will come upstairs anytime between 1145 and 230 in the morning and just start meowing, loudly, and I have a wife and two kids and I need them all to stay asleep, so poor Bruce Willis gets locked in the basement.

      Sometimes it’s right as I turn my light off when I’m done reading, and I lay my head on my pillow, he just rolls in. Sometimes I’m fast asleep and he does it. But five nights a week, at least, he needs to wake me up, and he goes to the backdoor, so the farthest place from my spot in bed, because he thinks he’s going outside, and then I pick him up and put him in the basement. He will never learn.

      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        Have you tried setting up a little cat bed near your own bed? In the basement, he’s probably lonely. Getting older, he might be feeling lonely down there at night, and wanting to seek out company.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 hours ago

          He just wants to go outside. He’s a lone wolf type cat. I may try the bed thing, but sometimes he’ll hang on my bed or my daughter’s for a bit, before ultimately deciding to wake everyone up so he can go outside.

          • edible_funk@lemmy.world
            3·
            7 hours ago

            I’m sure you’ve heard it but in most areas it’s strongly recommended to always keep your cats indoors or otherwise leashed or restrained when outside, as they can be devastating to local wildlife and being outdoors can shave years off a cat’s lifespan.

            • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
              2·
              4 hours ago

              Yeah, I know, but he was a steet cat until my wife scooped him up, he was about three then, and it was very hard to take the street cat out of the street cat. The alternative, as you can tell, becomes locking him in a basement, which isn’t a great alternative to me.

              • edible_funk@lemmy.world
                3·
                3 hours ago

                I wasn’t trying to be judgey, a lot of people think it’s better for the cat to let them have freedom to roam, but indoor cats have nearly double the lifespan.

                • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 hours ago

                  No, it’s cool, I didn’t interpret it that way. I get it and I understand it, but I wrestle with having had this cat since 2014 at this point, knowing what he’s like and where he came from, and it definitely conflicts with guidance I’ve read, but he’s healthy and great weight and active when he goes out, and so here we are.

  • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    20 hours ago

    Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!

    I CAN’T HEEEAR YOOOOU!

    Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me very often.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      7·
      19 hours ago

      I one hundred percent have it. Like you, infrequent, but it’s either a bang or a crack, and sometimes a horn. Was so glad to learn they’ve got a name for it, because now I just chalk my waking up to a noise to it.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 day ago

    The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?

  • Demdaru@lemmy.world
    49·
    1 day ago

    Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements…if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as “insulation” in the floor xD

    Anyway, what I wanted to say…if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD

    • xylol@leminal.space
      20·
      1 day ago

      I’m a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.

      Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      It sounds like you’d have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you’re talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors

    • sidelove@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 day ago

      God, there really is something there with that “problem!” signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you’d figure our monkey brains wouldn’t give a damn about.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
      5·
      1 day ago

      Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.

      My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.

      We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.

      • Demdaru@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Wish I could replace it, but heavy case of living from paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully flat isn’t mine but a third party organisation belonging to city, so they cover every electrical f-up that happens.

        I…am not sure if knob and tube was even used in EU, and between short search and LLM query the answer seems to be “no”. So this may be the closest EU equivalent to that xD

        All in all tho, I can relate to hunting shorts. At this point 5/7 of my mini electrical boxes (can-like shape hole in the wall where cables junction?) were replaced by electrician, because they all shorted to all hell. When I moved in it was worse - I had parallel connection between lightswitch and outlet and similiar shit xD Last owner was a handyman builder and…it was showing. A lot.

        Also I have only one circuit on singular fuse so that’s also fun.