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There's something whining in my house....

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crun Fri 18-Dec-15 18:12:33

I remember the sleepless nights trying to track down the noise that kept waking me up in the small hours about 25 years ago. It turned out to be the low battery warning on the smoke alarm. I didn't recognise it because I'd never heard it before.

Katek Fri 18-Dec-15 17:29:26

grinCrun!!
DH has so far failed to track down the noise-says he can't hear it, but I think he's having a few issues in the aural department. Not that he'd admit it.

crun Fri 18-Dec-15 14:15:21

Passenger: "What's that whining noise?"
Air Stewardess: "Nervous passengers, Sir."

In my case, it's tinnitus.

KatyK Fri 18-Dec-15 14:06:54

It's very annoying when you can't track a noise down.

harrigran Fri 18-Dec-15 11:53:59

I tracked a whining noise to a bedroom that GD uses and found that it was a toy kitchen blender in a plastic crate. The GC had visited that afternoon and had been playing restaurants tchsmile

Alea Fri 18-Dec-15 11:10:29

In our house it's probably ME!!

Katek Fri 18-Dec-15 11:06:35

May just adopt your strategy Katyk and wait for DH to come home! He's due in after lunch from Amsterdam - 'welcome home dear, now can you fix that noise!'

KatyK Fri 18-Dec-15 10:59:45

We had something similar recently Katek I was in the house on my own and there was this intermittent whining noise which seemed to be coming from the back bedroom. I couldn't track it down and it was driving me mad. When DH came home, I told him and typically it had stopped. Then it started up again and he said 'oh the radiator in the bedroom probably needs bleeding'. He was right!

Katek Fri 18-Dec-15 10:53:45

....and it's not me! It's a high pitched whine on the edge of hearing which is coming and going. Thought it was the fridge, but no. Must track it down as it's soooo irritating. Either that or turn radio up.