Popping Sound Roof

The sun hits your roof and heats it up.

Popping sound roof.

As your house quiets down at night and the temperatures fall the cooling of your roof components can often be heard. As the lumber expands it moves and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren t moving at the same rate. This movement creates the popping noise. The lower part of the roof seems to pop more than the upper part over the up stairs.

It s thermal expansion and contraction. The sun hits your roof and heats it up. As for the popping noise in the morning and evening that s a different mechanism. As the lumber expands it moves and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren t moving at the same rate.

It did pop there as well but we have solar panel on the upper part of the roof and they don t make any noise. The most common noise issues with flat roofs are banging loud rain snapping popping sounds heat related cracking and creaking. The sound can be present both in mild weather and heavy winds. The main noise is about 4 to 5 feet from the eves there is a tree that shades part of the roof for part of the day.

Popping cracking and snapping sounds coming from their roofs especially when the colder weather hits is a common problem. Banging sounds generally occur when a part of the roof has not been properly fixed in place. As the lumber expands it moves and rubs against other pieces of wood that aren t moving at the same rate. The sun shines on your roof all day warming the tiles and sub roof.

This movement creates the popping noise.