Condo Building 1st Floor Vibrating Noise Coming From Wall

When a single ac unit turns on i get vibrations through the walls.

Condo building 1st floor vibrating noise coming from wall.

This is another question about ac on the roof of a condominium. I am on the top floor of the condo. People who have lived in apartments or condominiums are familiar with noise created by other occupants of the building and likely have experience with condominium noise complaints. For the past few months i hear at intervals a loud buzzing or vibrating from the outside wall.

We hear foot steps from above plus vacuum cleaner noise lg. Five years ago before that the kitchen pipe bursted and flooded the. I m in a quandary. However homeowners downsizing from houses to condominiums are often surprised by noise that they did not experience while living in a detached house.

When one of bruce ailion s clients told the atlanta based realtor that he heard a buzzing noise coming from his walls ailion cracked the plaster to take a look. The issue is with the vibrating tubes from the roof units which go down through the walls. The builders put spring lifters on the ac units but this didnt help. My home is a 2 story built in 1987.

I ve been hearing a vibrating motor sound throughout the entire house in the walls. Dog playing and jumping chairs moving on tile floor in kitchen toilets flushing and tub draining closet doors closing. The front room floor does feel like its vibrating but perhaps the noise i am hearing gives the suggestion of vibration sounds like a bus engine idling in distance or the throb of engine when you are on a ferry but very low level. It sounds like a pump running.

Upstairs condo is carpeted except for kitchen and baths. At night when all is quiet it s horrendous as there are no other noises to mask it. Instead ailion was shocked to discover some new residents. He expected it to be the pipes or electrical system making the odd sound.

We just had a new water heater installed about 10 months prior after our old one leaked and started to flood the garage. I ve been living here four years coming up in july and never heard this noise before. It s the loudest through a wall that separates the master bath and the stairwell. The noise lasts only a few seconds but it is loud.

Our condo has double concrete block fire walls. Its motor was turned off twice on different days yet the noise continued. Loud hum from water pipe high rise condo.