What species it is and where are you located? Is it solid or engineered? How wide? The squeaky floors in our house is getting worse. It started out in certain spots in the hallway. Now the whole hallway squeaks and some patches in all the rooms. The only place with no squeaks is the kitchen and dining room. Should we be concerned that there are issues with the floors that should be inspected or is this normal? There are a lot of variables that can affect weather a wood floor will squeak.
Hardwood flooring will expand and contract as the relative humidity and temperature increase or decrease. Proper expansion along the growth areas is critical. It could also be an improper Nailing schedule. If the flooring is plank hardwood was there any form of glue assist, I would connect with the installer and see if he has a remedy before going forward with an inspection. Your email address will not be published. This will reduce wood-on-wood friction between the planks and silence small squeaks.
Finish by using a vacuum cleaner or damp cloth to remove any remaining powder from the floor. After spraying, wipe off any excess lubricant with a slightly dampened cotton cloth or paper towel.
A cleverly designed product called Squeeeeek No More offers a simple solution to eliminating squeaks from the topside of the floor. The kit includes a tripod tool, driver bit, stud finder, and special counter-snap screws. The screws are coated with wax to drive through carpet without catching strands and causing a run. You use the tripod and bit to drive the screw through the floor covering and subfloor and into a joist.
The shaft of each screw is pre-scored 1 inch from the top, so that when you drive the screw through the tripod tool, the screw snaps off just below the surface of the subfloor. The threaded portion of the screw remains in place and securely fastens the subfloor to the joist. The Squeeeeek No More system works on a variety of flooring products, including carpeting, hardwood planks, vinyl sheet and tiles, and linoleum tiles.
Carpeting will hide the resulting screw hole. But you'll have to fill any holes left behind in hardwood floors using a wood filler. Linoleum and vinyl will expand slightly to partially cover the hole, but they won't hide it completely. You could try concealing the holes with caulk. But in the end, you'll have to decide if you want a tiny, barely visible hole, which you can strategically cover with furniture or a throw rug, or if you prefer to live with a few squeaks.
Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Insert Shims Into Gaps. Nail a Board Along a Warped Joist. Add Blocks to Noisy Joists. Drive Short Screws Through the Bottom. Lubricate the Floorboards. Hi, I have a home with terrible squeaks all over the main floor sq ft. Before we finished the basement we tried to resolve the worst squeaks with shims. The noise is driving me crazy! These are great questions, and it seems like you are on the right path.
The tricks such as WD, talc powder, etc. There are a lot of great things about owning an old home, right?
Wood floor queaks, maybe not so much. Good luck! Please help! A contractor installed a new door between our kitchen porcelain tile and no squeaks for over 15 years and our dining room hardwood oak floor with no squeaks in over 15 years. The contractor removed the transition wood threshold while installing door and replaced it.
Now that we are in the cold months in Ohio, there is dramatic squeaking on both sides of transition. I am dealing with breast cancer recovery and this is very upsetting to me as I fear both floors are being ruined and the porcelain tile may crack. Could this be due to improper installation of the transition. I cannot imagine that I can get a floor installer to look at such a seemingly minor issue for the installer.
I do not know what the cause is or how to proceed. I am using a humidifier in the kitchen to no avail. I would appreciate any help. It is certainly likely that the new door installation caused some change to how tight or secure your flooring is and if there is even a slight amount of movement, that could be the cause of your squeaks.
Best wishes to you, and I hope you get a full recovery quickly! Hi Caleb. I have some squeaks in my floor that I have narrowed down to exposed nails coming through the plywood sub floor from the basement, which is not finished.
Nails rub on plywood when walking on floor and cause the squeak. Before I attempt to try anything I thought I would see what you suggested. Hi William, it sounds like you are on the right track. It creaks and groans on every square foot throughout. Is that correct? Hi Jonathan — do you remember if your floor prior to this one squeaked as well? This can also happen when going from carpet to wood flooring.
But when a rigid wood floor is installed over a poor subfloor squeaks are often a common result. That sounds like a frustrating problem! It would inject adhesive underneath your floor to fill in any open areas that might be causing squeaks. It also might be worth having a professional come out to take a look.
I am having the same problem. The floor joist and wall base wre nailed and the joist meet the center line of the house main beam 4 feet into the Master bedroom. I can slide a putty knife under the wall and feel the nails. I drove some small wedges into the gap injected sub floor adhesive and then pulled the wedges, that decreased most of the problem but the nails are still loos in the was, I plan on next pulling the molding up and using screws at an angle low on the wall thru the base plate and into the joist to pull the two back together.
I am open fro any other hints. Hi Sue! Many people have homes where they cannot access their floors from below to fix parts of the subfloor that are moving and causing squeaks.
I would recommend trying the Squeak No More kit that we talk about in this article see above. There is a break-away screw kit for carpeted floors that can help secure your subfloor to the joists and help reduce the squeaks. Hope this helps! We moved a large heavy antique armoire upstairs to my bedroom with carpet over a composite subfloor. Even a slight bow or bend in your joists may create space or other voids in-between your floor and subfloor. These voids will then create squeaks when the floor is walked on.
You may try to put a wide, flat board plywood or other flat piece underneath your armoire in order to spread the weight of the armoire out over more joists underneath the floor.
If you can spread out the weight of the piece it may help eliminate some of the squeaks you are hearing. Ultimately, your floor may not be strong enough to handle this furniture piece without warping your subfloor.
Please use caution, and consider getting a professional to evaluate the load bearing capacity of this area of your home and ensure that the room beneath this level in your home is not occupied by anyone if you are at all concerned that the floor is not strong enough to hold this much weight. Thanks for the question! Definitely what my concern is can the actual structure support it.
Dispersing the weight was something that I thought about too. Our floors had carpeting and in different areas laminated flooring. We are pulling up all our carpeting and the laminate and putting in engineered hardwood floors.
We have already started pulling up the carpet. It seems like now is the time to fix these squeaking problems while the plywood is exposed , but we are not sure how to go about doing that or who to call to assess what is really needed. It seems like the suggestions about the plywood and subflooring not being attached properly may fit our situation as it squeaks no matter what season it is and it still squeaks when we are walking on just the plywood.
Do you have any suggestions for us? Hi Dori! I think you are on track here. If your plywood subfloors are squeaking, it is likely due to the way the plywood is fastened to the joists beneath your floor. If you have a crawlspace or basement with exposed ceilings, you can have one person look at the floor from below while someone else walks around on top. You will likely hear squeaks, and see some movement.
Remember: movement is what causes squeaks. If you can identify what parts of your floor are moving either the joists, or the plywood panels themselves , you can then have a better idea of what needs to be tightened up to stop the movement and stop the squeaks.
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