Q: How do you repair squeaking floors? The house is 47 years old, and simply walking across the floors creates a squeak. But it’s only in certain areas, not the whole floor or room. Can we eliminate ...

A squeaky, creaky floor is an annoying nuisance that can drive you crazy. The causes are typically either structural — like a loose floorboard or two floorboards rubbing together — or environmental — ...

Q We have a large area of hardwood flooring that was installed 10 years ago and is now squeaking badly. There is access to the underside of this floor in our basement, which is unfinished. Can these ...

Q: Our problem is squeaking floors on the second floor of our 45-year-old house. My husband has a device that is supposed to tell you where the studs are. But the floor is still squeaking. He has put ...

Here are 5 easy ways to fix the squeaks in your floors, regardless of the flooring type. **Products Used:** - GRK R4 1 1/2” Deck Screws - Squeeeeek No More Kit - Floor Touch Up Repair Kit - Wood ...

An old issue of Mother Earth News contains "20 of the all-time best hints for making household repairs," including this squeaky-floor fix: A squeaky floor is usually caused by two or more boards ...

As you delicately try to tiptoe past that familiar creak in the floor, your foot is inevitably drawn right to it and that terrible squeak is heard, loud as ever, throughout the house. It's happened to ...

Q-The wood floor in our living room squeaks in several places. This floor has expensive wall-to-wall carpeting on it that we don`t want to take up. Because the basement ceiling is not finished, the ...

Squeaky floors might have been great during Halloween season, but what are you going to do about them now? There are several things you can do to quiet squeaks. Here are a few things you can try in ...

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