I've got something like this right now. Started a couple of months ago, but mine is something like once every 5-10 minutes rather than every second. I hadn't considered it being caused by insects - I suspected it was something expanding and contracting as the house warms and cools as it seems less frequent when the outside temperature is less than 15 degrees.

I would like to be rid of it, but I don't really fancy ripping the floor/ceiling up to track it down. If it was going every second though it would have sent me mad (but would be easier to locate I suppose).

This spurred me on to try and get my ticking/cracking sorted out. It's in the master bedroom floor / lounge ceiling, so it has been getting on my wick for a bit now. I pulled the bed out with the intention of literally putting my ear to the floor to pinpoint exactly where it was coming from in case it had to be a carpet and floorboards up job. Strangely, moving the bed seemed to reduce the frequency of the cracking sound, to the point where I almost thought that had fixed it. It was still there though.

I put the bed back and finally realised that the noise was being caused by the weight of a bookcase in the bedroom. Over the last couple of years I've been collecting a series of hardback books which are individually really heavy. I'm up to about 40 of them on this bookcase and I finally realised the damn thing was on the verge of crashing through the floor. I've unpacked the books and put them in piles of 5 or 6 around the place. I moved the bookcase and the carpet below it had been crushed paper thin. The cracking sound was the bookcase pushing down on the bedroom floor joists.

I've been sat in the lounge below the bedroom for the last hour in perfect silence. Just have to decide what to do with the 8 piles of books I have all round the house.

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