We moved our beds into the house the day before moving everything else. We thought it would be fun to 'camp out'. Oh my god. Firstly someone was either having a very large fireworks display, or more likely they were blasting on the highway a few miles away. Deep, deep rumbling echoing around the hillside. Very disquieting in a new house, especially when you have this massive expanse of land behind you. Will thought it was a T-Rex coming out of the forest.
And then there was this:
Every twenty minutes the boiler would kick in and produce this satanic noise as the pipes and heating fins changed temperature. Either I have dislodged the washer things that stop metal on metal contact, or they have always made this sound. If it's the later, it's no surprise that the prior owners fell into financial difficulty. There's no way you could hold down a job if you were driven to edge of insanity every night. The boiler would click on and you'd have about 2 minutes of this machine-gun clicking. Then it would slow, but that wasn't a relief because you knew as the period between clicks increased, it just meant you were gearing up for the machine-gunning again.
I doubt we got more than four hours sleep that night. Consequently, until I fix the issues, we just turn the thermostat well down and freeze.
