Paranoia Or Fridge?!

[Scarlett]

My flatmate has complained that his room is vibrating. This has only just started to happen in the last week. I thought it might be an outside generator, however, we got a new fridge recently and since his room is next to the kitchen, I worry that this fridge may be what's stopping him sleeping.
It's a small undercounter fridge freezer made by Ice King. It was £120 from the Co-op. Do you think this could be the cause of noise/vibration and is it possible to buy quiet fridge freezers?!

[ummmm]

Surely if it was the fridge you'd notice it in the kitchen.

[mikey4444]

Well, there is an easy way to test this....switch the fridge off and does the vibration still continue ?

I think its unlikely to be the fridge at fault. Fridges don't "vibrate" as a rule.

[jennyjoan]

they can sometimes Mikey and also noisy - legs need to be fully positioned. Turn it off Scarlett - that will let you know better.

[mikey4444]

A fridge might vibrate, if it isn't sitting correctly, but fridges are silent, in between their regular periods when the compressor starts up.

[gingejbee]

Is the floor concrete or floorboards? Dodgy floorboards could easily transmit noise/vibration to an adjacent room. Or, is the fridge-freezer actually touching the wall....some people are very sensitive to this sort of noise/vibration and some would never notice it.

[donny48]

Wait till the vibration is happening then switch the fridge off, if vibration stops then it's the fridge.

[woofgang]

I would turn the fridge off and not tell the bloke.....leave it off for a few hours, if he doesn't say anything then check with him but don't say you have turned the fridge off, then do the samw with it on. I am not being nasty but if its not the fridge, he may think its the fridge and "imagine" that there is a difference when there actually isn't. People are amazingly suggestible

[snags]

Is this the same flatmate who was convinced he could smell burning oil coming from the kitchen?

If so, I'd go with paranoia.

[fbg40]

Scarlett
Spent a week in a house in Nova Scotia a few years ago. I slept in a bedroom that backed on to a kitchen wall against which was the fridge freezer. This thing, when it started up every so often, would vibrate and transmit the vibration through the wall into the bedroom - it was horrendous. I ended up, each night, moving the fridge freezer well away from the wall (luckily it had a long lead and was easliy moveable) into the centre of the kitchen - problem solved. So yes, to me it sounds as though the fridge could be the culprit. Good luck.
FBG40

[Tuvok]

When its really windy outside I'm sure my bed shakes! Certainly my ornametns on the wall rattle?

I downloaded a sismec app for the ipad - so next time its wild I'm going to try it!

[Hopkirk]

Make sure it isn't touching any walls, and stand it on something soft - perhaps cut pieces of washing up sponges.

[gingejbee]

^^^no, it needs to be standing on something that absorbs vibration like a high-density foam - not easily compressible polyether foam.

[hc4361]

I had to turn the fridge off in my hotel room once. The vibration was driving me potty when I went to bed.

[Scarlett]

Update: it's not the fridge! But he is still freaking out cos his room is vibrating. He says it's like a washing machine on a very fast spin quite far away
(It's not the neighbour above, theirs is really loud).
He's left the house and the vibrating stopped
so it's not him. Wish I knew what it could be.

[1ozzy]

A paranormal flatmate??

[hc4361]

Can you hear/feel it at all, Scarlett?

[Scarlett]

No I can't feel anything!