Well, I’m happy for that!
But just asking if anyone knows since this mentioned refrigerators.
I had a very weird thing happen several years back. I was lying in bed, 9am in the morning, day off. No one home but me and I woke up because I heard an old forties phone ringing in the kitchen, incredibly loud. We do not HAVE an old forties phone. It had that kind of dull metal noise of hitting the bell as it made the ringing sound. Very distinct. I walked out to the kitchen to see what the heck it was and the sound was coming from my refrigerator?! Right in front of me like it was coming from the freezer. Did it for another 15 or 20 min, and then stopped. When this happened it stopped and then after another 15 min the phone ringing sound starts again, very loud. Did this all morning, rang for about 15 min without stopping then silent, then started again. My husband was at work. I had no smartphone to capture this, no tape machine.
Well did it again next day, only now the sound move down to the refrigerator area and then over to the cooktop next to the fridge, on the wall behind the cooktop after an hour or so, ringing from the refrigerator area. Did this again following day and my brother happened to call. He did hear it but had no explanation for it.
Does anyone know if there is any way a sound like this can be made from a freezer or a refrigerator or in the wall behind a cooktop? Is there a refrigerator compressor that could do that? I had not any trouble with that refrigerator and it was back years ago and since have gotten a new refrigerator. Never heard it again after those few days of it ‘ringing’.
I wondered if somehow it was the compressor or something to do with the refrigerator. Later on, years later when I bought a new fridge I asked the guy installing the new one, he said nothing in any refrigerator makes a noise like an old phone and acted like I was maybe a little off 😆 I’m not off, lol, that really happened.
Is your house old, ie, built before 1950?
And if it is, does it have gas utility?
Or barring that, does it have an old heating system like a boiler and steam radiators?............