When water expands in the contracting pipes it causes pressure that could lead to bursting pipes.
Roof spinner noise cold weather.
When water freezes it expands instead of contracting.
Awakening in the middle of a cold night by repeated loud banging from your home s roof can be quite alarming giving rise to visions of falling tree limbs or intruders on the roof.
While these are easily explained and remedied some other offensive sounds are not.
This is a common problem in very cold climates.
When the pipes burst you will hear a loud popping sound.
As your house quiets down at night and the temperatures fall the cooling of your roof components can often be heard.
Popping cracking and snapping sounds coming from their roofs especially when the colder weather hits is a common problem.
Your complaint of unusual cracking noises during the winter is a common one from occupants of homes built pre 1980 s.
What you re hearing however is the effect of low temperatures on the building materials.
Water in the pipes will freeze in the cold weather.
The sun shines on your roof all day warming the tiles and sub roof.