Help? I have just moved into a realtivly new 4 bed house @ 9 years old. The main bedroom floor is very very creaky more so than i remember when we went to view. The main bedroom is the worst. My best guss is there is about 5mm gap between the tongue and grove floor boards and the joists in this room.My sons bedrooms are ok. Is there any fix for this? I was told cutting the floor up was an option but seems a bit extreme .Any advice most welcome... Many Thanks
sprinkle talc powder, let sit (make sure it gets in cracks) sweep up and you should be good.
If you can get in the crawl space you can but spaces in the gaps causing the creaks. We put in plastic spacers 30 years ago and no creaks since.
If that's a carpeted room one concern you're able to do is take the carpet up, and run timber screws in the process the floor, the sub floor and into the floor joists. in case you're going with that approach you will desire to coat the screws in timber glue, or another adhesive to maintain them from chickening out via the years below the carpet. If that's a timber floor, you could pull up the floor to divulge the sub floor, do incredibly the comparable concern, and then use stuff referred to as leveling compound over the suitable of the sub floor. as quickly as this is dry, re-lay your timber flooring. If neither of those strategies sound good, and the joists are uncovered on the backside, you ought to use screws up from the joists at an perspective to tighten the hollow between the joists and the sub floor, only confirm that your screws do now not bypass extra effective than a million/2 and inch vertically into the subfloor. additionally, toughen the joists to confirm that the joints aern't squeeking. For toung and groove timber flooring from time to time the floor settles and varieties a niche between the floor and the sub floor. in case you at the instant are not prepared to take in the floor to repair the squeek, you could drill tiny holes interior the flooring, and then inject self leveling compound or timber filler underneith the floor boards. individually i've got in no way finished that one and don't comprehend each and every of the puzzling info of it, yet i've got viewed the place that's been finished and that's incredibly efficient. the perfect thank you to comprehend in case you have a seperation of the floor and subfloor is to roll a golfing ball around the floor. whilst it is going from a typical golfing ball rolling sound to form of a hollow sound, you comprehend the place your voids are. (and the professionals incredibly use that too... I laughed incredibly lots whilst a golfing ball grew to become right into a gadget of the commerce.)
If you do not have a carpet down you and the floor is just the floor boards it is just that the floor nails they have used have become loose. Buy some new floor nails and hammer down the places it squeeks. You should be able to see where the old ones are and hammer next to those. (you need to hammer into the floor joists). Use a hole punch to ensure the nail head is not raised. If you have carpet down then you can still do this but finding the joists is hit and miss. Becarfull and think about what might be under the floor, pipes etc.... If you hammer where current nails are in you should be OK.
