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The bitter cold weather that we experience here in Minnesota each winter can create some major headaches like busted pipes or broken furnaces. Temps have dropped below zero several times this week and my house has been making some really strange sounds. Does your house make weird noises throughout the winter months?
Norbert Delatte, a civil and environmental engineering department chairman and professor at Cleveland State University explained the sound on Cleveland.com Pretty much all building materials – wood, concrete, steel – expand with heat and contract with cold. The foundation of a house stays at a more normal temperature where the outside of the house is trying to shrink against it, so whatever connections there are between the foundation and home, they would be making some noise.
Norbert Delatte, a civil and environmental engineering department chairman and professor at Cleveland State University explained the sound on Cleveland.com Pretty much all building materials – wood, concrete, steel – expand with heat and contract with cold. The foundation of a house stays at a more normal temperature where the outside of the house is trying to shrink against it, so whatever connections there are between the foundation and home, they would be making some noise.
Norbert Delatte, a civil and environmental engineering department chairman and professor at Cleveland State University explained the sound on Cleveland.com Pretty much all building materials – wood, concrete, steel – expand with heat and contract with cold. The foundation of a house stays at a more normal temperature where the outside of the house is trying to shrink against it, so whatever connections there are between the foundation and home, they would be making some noise.
Norbert Delatte, a civil and environmental engineering department chairman and professor at Cleveland State University explained the sound on Cleveland.com Pretty much all building materials – wood, concrete, steel – expand with heat and contract with cold. The foundation of a house stays at a more normal temperature where the outside of the house is trying to shrink against it, so whatever connections there are between the foundation and home, they would be making some noise.