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Creaky Floorboards

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  • 30-08-2010 8:27am
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    Mullie
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭


    Does anyone else have seriously creaky floorboards upstairs in Charlesland?
    I think I've only noticed since the baby arrived but its impossible to move about without the place creaking loudly!
    Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Is it a matter of getting a hammer and some nails to it?
    Thanks!


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    FirstIn
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭FirstIn


    If you have carpet do you have underlay! We do on the landing and there are no noises however in the bedroom with no underlay it is creaky.


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    Charlie-Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,663 ✭✭✭Charlie-Bravo


    FirstIn wrote: »
    If you have carpet do you have underlay! We do on the landing and there are no noises however in the bedroom with no underlay it is creaky.

    Same here but we have underlay in the bedrooms - I believe the joists aren't laid level and when the floorboards were laid, they were shot driven, a handful not fully fixing down the boards, a handful missing joists.

    The best economical way to deal with it will be to screw them down. The best way is to replace the floorboards with a plyboard. We have WPB plyboard in the attic, and you bearly hear anything going on up there ;) thats what results from good materials and good workmanship!

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    ciaran67
    Registered Users Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭ciaran67


    FirstIn wrote: »
    If you have carpet do you have underlay!

    Speedy Gonzales keeps banging on about that stuff


    sorry


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