When the creaking happens under a carpeted floor, it can be especially difficult ... screws which are designed to go through ...

squeaky floorboards under carpet can be fixed using counter-snap screws. Mark the squeaky spots, pull the carpet taut, and insert screws through the floor into the subfloor. The carpet surface ...

The homeowner can stop the squeak without removing the carpet. Do you know of this ... But you have to have access under the floor for those other two. If there’s no access to the underside ...

After locating the joists, an alignment and depth control fixture allows you to drill through the carpet with one of the provided screws into the joist where the squeak exists. The screw will tighten ...

The noise is coming from the plywood subfloor under the carpet, which needs to be fastened ... It can take a lot of screws to fix a very squeaky floor. Some contractors stretch strings across ...

These repairs are best done from below, unless you have carpet ... floor is cosmetically more appealing. Squeaks between the joists in the plywood seams are best silenced by installing blocking ...

Q: Our floors squeak when we walk on the carpets ... screwing the subfloor to the floor joists after you remove the old carpet and pad, but before the new carpet is installed.

Can we eliminate the squeak without replacing the floors? A: A squeak in hardwood, carpet or vinyl flooring is usually the result of the subfloor rubbing against a nail used to secure the floor to ...

On hardwood floors in which the squeak is caused by a board that has risen, you can drive a wood screw from under the subfloor ... solution is to roll back the carpet to gain access directly ...

Squeaky floors may alert you to kids sneaking in past ... Position it directly under the squeaky spot. Slide the bracket over the threaded rod and hook it onto the joist. Spin a nut onto the ...

The screws are driven through the carpet and flooring with a power ... for about $30. Fixing squeaky floors is tricky under any circumstances, so I can’t guarantee that this treatment will ...