squeeky. How do I fix this with out spending a lot of money. I am fixing to put the house up fpr sale and dont want to spend a lot of money on repairs...
2007-01-26 22:21:15 · 4 answers · asked by christy_lee27 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
After you get the carpet up, buy a 1 lb box of 8d finish nails and one 1 lb of spiral flooring nails. It may take a while to find the floor joist but you will need to drive the nails into the joist or it won't help.
Take some chaulk or something that will mark the areas that squeak.
Take a hammer and tap the flooring and listen and you can here the diference when you are over the joist.
It will be a hollow sound until you get to the joist and you can tell either where it is, or close to it.
Take a finish nail and drive it where you think it is. Not all the way down, but just enough to see if you hit it. Any misses, pull the nail and move over about an inch and try again until you find them.
After you are sure you have located the center of each joist where it squeaks, drive the spiral flooring nails every 6" into it if it has plywood flooring. If it has narrow boards, say 2 - 2 1/2", put one in the center of each one.
Walk on it enough to makes sure you have all the squeaks fixed before you replace the carpet.
You can also use flooring screws for the second step. Just make sure the heads pull down in the wood and don't stick up.
The screws are actually better, if you have a drill or screw gun, but the spiral nails will work it you only have a hammer, lol.
If you need any more help, e-mail me and I'll be happy to help you out.
Good luck and God Bless
Dennis
2007-01-26 22:51:24 · answer #1 · answered by dennis_phillips7 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
find the floor joists (look for nails) and screw the floor boards to the joists, use 1.5 in screws. and stand on the board your screwing down so that it doesn't lift off the joist as you screw it down. the squeaking is the floor boards moving across the nails that are no longer holding the boards tight to the joists. That's the quick fix, the long term fix is to screw the boards down then lay and glue down a new layer of sub-floor.
2007-01-26 22:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by nikomat77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after removing the carpet, just dust the entire area with baby powder
2007-01-28 04:49:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
screw the flooring down to the joists
2007-01-26 22:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by RUSSELLL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋