• binarytobis@lemmy.world
    1·
    48 minutes 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.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      3 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.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
        2·
        57 minutes 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·
      3 hours ago

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

  • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!

    I CAN’T HEEEAR YOOOOU!

    Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me very often.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 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.

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    26·
    8 hours 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.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    9 hours 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?

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
      2·
      47 minutes 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.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 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.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
      34·
      11 hours 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.

  • Demdaru@lemmy.world
    38·
    12 hours 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

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      9 hours 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

    • xylol@leminal.space
      13·
      11 hours 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

    • sidelove@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 hours 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
      3·
      8 hours 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.