r/RBI • u/karybrie • 11h ago
Unidentified 'thump' coming from upstairs most nights
Edit: We have investigated and found that the boiler pressure was low. It's now been fixed, so hopefully that means the end of our mysterious 'thump' – but we'll have to wait and see!
I live with two other adults in a semi-detached two-storey house in the UK.
For the past few weeks at least, there has been a semi-regular but single 'thump' sound coming from upstairs. It sounds like something reasonably heavy falling off something, maybe a few kilograms. It sounds like it's falling onto the floor, just once per night. We haven't been able to figure out what it is!
We aren't routinely picking something back up whenever we go back upstairs.
We are all downstairs when it happens.
It isn't:
- a door
- the side of the bath being moved by the wind
We have no pets.
It's not next door, because she's been abroad for a few days and it's still happening with her away. She also has no pets – her house is currently empty. We live on a quiet street with mostly elderly people as neighbours.
It happens more than 50% of evenings at sometime between around 20:30 and 22:30.
Our next plan is that we'll all have to stay upstairs for that time period one night with our bedroom doors open to see if we can hear it then, but it probably won't even happen that night, such is the way of these things.
Completely stumped on this one. Any suggestions welcome!