Our house is old with LOUD creaking wooden floors- how do I get rid of the sqeaking?

Question

I stay up weird hours and wake up family members and it is very irritating, thank u!

-I have already sprinkled talcum powder- made no difference, just old wooden floors with random white spots now that still creak...

IS THERE A CHEAP METHOD FOR FIXING THIS ISSUE...AND NOT HAVING TO TEAR ABOUT MY GROUND OR BRING IN A PROFESSIONAL? THANKS!! :)

Answer 1

you don't. it is inherent to old homes. you can remove the floor ,sub-floor, and frame but you probably will not opt into this. squeaks in floors of old homes comes from many areas this may include rubbing or chafing against abutting flooring members, structurally compromised sub-floors and most likely the use of cut nails on installation. cut nails are tapered in design and when your surface is compressed (weight above) the resulting return of the surface to its natural position results in a squeak. you may hear of purported resolutions of this which will cause further damage to your floors. apply powder? try getting it around the nail. then have your floors refinished and see if the finish sticks to the silica in the powder. buyer beware. if you succeed in restraining floors to limit movement of the boards they will split from compression of the wood cells and it will be real noisy. yours are old floors and thats the gig, sorry but thats the deal.

Answer 2

Get under the floor with a heap of thin wooden wedges and a hammer and get someone to walk on the squeaky bits and tap a wedge between the floor board and the joist in each case.you can also cheat and hammer a 3" nail right through the carpet and offending floorboard into the joist,the nail head will disappear into the carpet,just don't do it at my place,ha ha.

Answer 3

The best way is to pull carpet up, & screw sub floor down. If you cant, you can try to find exact spot, from under house(basement-crawl space) push it up with 2x4, squirt liquid nails or sub floor adhesive between sub floor & floor joist, remove 2x4 and put something real heavy 200 lbs ? on that spot on the floor/carpet for 2 days

Answer 4

I am a very light sleeper myself and one wonderfull thing that helps me and it took a little while to get used to was,to have a loud box fan blowing all night.I don`t like it blowing on me but the sound itself stayes at a constant even noise level and i can sleep like a baby.It pretty well drowns out all noise and i am talking about the noise of loud heavy metal being played by my husband all night at times.Also my dog that is outside can be loud at times and this boxfan shure does wonders and drowns it out.See what they would think about this idea.You are very consideret i would have to say and i do see where you also would like to have your owen space.Just have them try it.I think they might just like it like i do.

Answer 5

Everywhere it squeeks pound in a ribbed brad (a headless nail with ribs the length of the shank). If the floor is carpeted then use screws to secure the squeeks.

Answer 6

Hahaha sounds just like my house...eveywhere I step..creeeeeeak. And I stay up til like 3 or 4 am and have to sneak upstairs for bed w/out waking anyone but it's hard..its annoying.

Answer 7

Sprinkle powder in the cracks

Answer 8

just get a handy man or carpenter to repair your floors.

Answer 9

Turn up the stereo and you won't even notice!

Answer 10

the only sure way is subfloor adhesive. very cheap.....removing and replacing subfloor, very expensive.