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We are painting and upgrading our rental. It is a one story with partially finished basement. We have access to the underside of the main floor sub-floor.
The floors on the main level seem to squeak where ever you walk.
Does anyone have any tips on fixing this.
Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks all.
If you have hardwood floors that are squeaking, spread some baby powder on the floor. Let it sit for a day or two and then vacuum up. The powder works into the wood and will silence it.
If it's wood under the carpet, you will have to lift the carpet to spread the powder and put the caret back. No need to vacuum it if it's under carpet.
if you can get to the underneath, shims and construction adhesive. Have someone walk above you to locate the squeaks and then shim and glue.
They also sell screws that you can use where the heads break off, but not a fan of using them blind as you don't know what's in the stud below the floor you are about to screw into. I've seen romex run through the joists in a location that you would easily screw one of these studs into
Thank you all for the suggestions...I will be leaving to go work on the house for a week tomorrow. I do not have internet there, but I may be able to find free wireless, so I'll try to check in.
The house has just sub floors, with padding and carpet, (old carpet) we will be replacing those. We can access the sub floor underneath because most of the ceiling in basement is not dry walled.
Thanks again for the ideas. I am going to explore all of them.
If you're going to be replacing the carpet just go ahead and pull the carpet and pad. Once the subfloor is exposed you should be able to see the seams and the nails in the joists- go over the entire floor and install deck screws that are 2, to 2-1/2" in length. It's better to use a corded drill/driver for this because you'll eat up batteries pretty quick.
Install screws every four inches at butt joints, 6" in the field.
It fixes things very quickly and easily. Your biggest time-consuming task will be finding the joist. The joist finder is okay in the kit, and you will learn yourself how to "sense" the joist while drilling for it.
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