The flat above mine has squeaky floors and it is, at times, unbearable. The problem is that the floors are 'floating floors' and they haven't been laid properly. My flats are 5 years old and I have a 10 year warranty, although the builder says the floors only have a 2 year warranty. Can anyone shine light on this situation??
Throw some nails where the boards are squeaking allot it is a EZ fix Good Luck
a friend has an old house with a same problem, he actually fixed it by filling the cracks with baby powder as what all the experts say maybe true, but ultimately the floors sqeeks where the board are joined May not work in newer houses, but for the price i'd give it a try
A lot of times electricians and pipe guys drill a lot of holes in the main supports when the place is being built. If they drilled through main glue lamb support beams then they should have to fix it. Maybe it rained a lot when they were building the place and it flooded and the wood is warped and rotten in some places. Try a little investigation, however there are a lot of carpenters who would LOVE to fix your floors right now.
It isn't exactly the floor that's squeaking. It's the nails that were used to put down the plywood and sub-flooring. The nails were either too short, not driven in hard enough, or there were too few nails used, so when someone is walking around the wood flexes and the squeak you hear are the nails moving up and down. There isn't much of a practical cure for that other than driving new and longer nails into the floor and plenty of them. So, a floating floor system can be pulled up rather easily and since you have a 10 year warranty I would demand the builder fix the problem. It is NOT the wood squeaking, but the nails, and the carpenter that installed the plywood did an inferior job. The builder is going to contend that you're (I'm) wrong in an effort to get out of correcting the problem. I would sue him and challenge him to provide you with a set of blueprints along with a copy of the manufacturers specs on requirements for installing the plywood and sub-flooring. Once again, it would be easy to pull up a section of the floating floor to inspect the integrity of what's underneath it. I hope that helps.
