That loud popping noise you've noticed your house or deck making isn't ... temperature differences between the cold outside and a home's inside warmth — heat causes materials to expand ...

Inside, heat causes expansion ... This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Extreme cold: Why is my house cracking and popping in freezing weather?

But it’s not just cold outside — one neighbor says it’s cold inside her house. “I say about 11 or 10 degrees (in the house). Yeah. It’s freezing in there,” Jacqueline Clark said.