Creaking Solid Wood Floor

Loose subflooring both solid board and plywood types will also emit high pitched chirps.

Creaking solid wood floor. For example if your. Drive in screws from the hardwood floor right to the subfloor or the joist. Traditional hardwood strip flooring is the most susceptible to developing a case of the squeaks but all types of flooring can make annoying noises. The larger the noise the greater the movement and a sign that your sub floor may be uneven either because there was a fault in the installation or because you ve got the wrong underlay.

Another effective way to quiet squeaky floors is to install solid blocking in between the floor joists. Reset the boards with screws not nails and do it from above or below the floor. If your engineered or solid hardwood floor is squeaking because some of the boards are lifting you ll usually be able to feel play in the floor when you walk over the loose boards. Cut the blocking from the same size dimensional lumber as the joists.

Locate the source of the squeaking. With a solid wood floor creaking is generally the result of vertical movement which only needs to be very slight to produce an audible creak.