If you’ve ever heard a floorboard squeak and creak when
people walk across it even if they try to be quiet, you know how annoying it
can be. A squeaky floor is not a big
deal and will not harm your home if it is not fixed. Fixing it will only give you a sense of
relief and quiet.
Fixing the squeak is a two-person job. One person must walk around the floor to create
the squeak again while the other person is under the house pinpointing where
the sound is coming from. If the floor
is above unfinished or crawl space, the easiest fix is to smear some
carpenter’s glue on a thin wood shim and gently tap it between the joists and
subfloor or between two floorboards. Try
not to pound so hard that you raise or buckle the floor.
If you can’t easily access the noisy floor, you will have to
work from above. Drive ring-shark
flooring name or cement-covered flooring nails into the steams between rubbing
parts or if separating floor from subfloor is causing the creak, drive two
nails at opposite 45-degree angles into joists.
The joists can be easily located with a stud finder. Once you have found the holes, fill them with
wood filler.
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