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Soon we will be putting our house on the market and I have two areas that squeak/creak (my upper hallway(carpet)& bedroom floor (hardwood) depending on the weather..will this be a negative to buyers? when we had the hardwood floor put in they "tightened" the area in the bedroom but it still creaks periodically...am I being silly or should i be concerned?
Thanks!
Soon we will be putting our house on the market and I have two areas that squeak/creak (my upper hallway(carpet)& bedroom floor (hardwood) depending on the weather..will this be a negative to buyers? when we had the hardwood floor put in they "tightened" the area in the bedroom but it still creaks periodically...am I being silly or should i be concerned?
Thanks!
My husband is a carpenter, and he says on the stairs just drive very small nails throught the carpet into the floor where it squeeks. hardwood naturally can make some noise, it is usually the subfloor not the hardwood, but if the wood was nailed down it can be the floor moving on the nails, I wouldnt worry.
Soon we will be putting our house on the market and I have two areas that squeak/creak (my upper hallway(carpet)& bedroom floor (hardwood) depending on the weather..will this be a negative to buyers? when we had the hardwood floor put in they "tightened" the area in the bedroom but it still creaks periodically...am I being silly or should i be concerned?
Thanks!
Is there any softness when you step on those areas? If there is softness, there might be concern for rot in the subfloor (there may be none, but it might go through their minds).
we had the area in our bedroom checked when we put the hardwood floor down & everything looked good. The guys even put a couple of nails in the sub floor to tightened it but the squeak came back . It doesnt feel soft and somedays..like today we don't hear it. ggrr. I am probably being super sensitive since we are getting ready to put the house on the market.
For the bedroom with carpet, screws will work better than nails because it will tighten down the subfloor. The problem is that underneath the subfloor are floor joists that are usually 16 inches apart. The screw needs to go into both the subfloor and floorjoist to tighten down the subfloor. If it doesn't, you're not accomplishing anything because you're just putting a screw into the subfloor. You can try and find the joist with a studfinder.
you just have to use screws with small heads. We've done it before and it works fine. Before screwing it in, separate the carpet fibers with your hands to make some space, so that the screw won't catch the fibers when screwing it in.
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. It doesnt feel soft and somedays..like today we don't hear it. ggrr. I am probably being super sensitive since we are getting ready to put the house on the market.
