Squeaky floors

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Jeni4ka

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Hi,

We've just bought a 20year old house. The floors of the second floor are squeaky and its annoying. We removed the old carpet and I'm wondering if there is anything we can do to fix this before putting the new carpets? I've located a few areas whit noisy squeaks and suggested nails but my husband is afraid he might puncture a pipe or a wire.
Any advise would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Jeni4ka
 
Hi,

Read in a magazine if you shake baby powder between the floor boards this will help stop the squeaks.
 
Your husbands advice was very good advice. Putting powder between boards is a load of waddle. There's one way and one way only for a permanent solution, that is, take up the boards and re-set the lot of them, with either special nails, or good wood screws to battons that have been securly fixed to joists or concrete beams.
 
5thwheel said:
Hi,

Read in a magazine if you shake baby powder between the floor boards this will help stop the squeaks.
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This is what we were advised when we had the same problem a few years back. I thought it sounded bizarre and didn't bother, but eventually decided to give it a try a few months later,and it worked. Had to do it once or twice more over a period of probably 5 years.
I've no idea how it works.
 
We had the very same problem. the sqeak is the floor boards flexing as you walk on them. If your reasonably handy with a power screwdriver, you should go along every board adding extra support to the batten. There will already be a nail or screw to the side of the 4/6 inch board width, just add another in paralell all way down. I drew a pencil line down every board and put an x on every batton. Has being as quiet as church mouse this last 5 years.
 
Thank you all for the replies.

I spread baby power all over the floor last weekend and it didn't work for me. We will try with screws now and hopefully this will solve the problem, if not completely at least to some extent.
 
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