How can you stop squeaky hardwood floors? When I moved into my apartment I had nice hardwood floors. ...
When I moved into my apartment I had nice hardwood floors. Now after two years I own noticed that the areas where on earth people hike have become squeaky and creaky, while untouched areas are still firm and subdued. Is there some polyurethane coating that may hold worn off contained by the time since I moved in? Some other foundation why these areas are squeaky?
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There is only two things that will work.
1) Hire a guy to crawl lower than the floor and have someone receive the squeaks while he puts shimmies (thin wooden shingles) in between the floor and the floor joist.
If that doesn't work, burn the house down and collect the insurance money!
Answers: Is the squeak coming from the hardwood flooring itself, or the subfloor underneath it?
When there is a unhealthy traffic pattern, you will find that the portion of floor contained by that path, will be put through more flexing than elsewhere on the floor... this repeatedly results in nail backing out. But, it could be the nail in the subfloor... or the nail holding the hardwood floor to the sub floor (if it was nail, and not made as a 'floating' floor)
And it could easily be both layer making noise, hehehe.
I find that most normally, the laminate and hardwood floor coverings have a shorter 'squeak' to them, than the subfloor squeaks. In both cases, what have happened is the objects has lift a bit from whatever it be nailed to... and when you step on it... the board rubs on the nail/staple as it go down, creating the squeak.
You can certainly try to 'lubricate' hardwood/laminate flooring near powder, just keep hold of in mind, you're not fixing the problem, single treating the symptom. The problem is that nail (or nails) that have backed out, allowing the flooring to raise. A permanent fix (for surface flooring material) would be to verbs it up, and reset it... and I'd think roughly using some glue, instead of nail, to prevent it from happening again, within a couple of years, hehehe.
If the problem is the sub-floor squeaking... then I close to to use a "Squeak Ender". This is a special bracket made just for this type of squeak....it screw to the underside of the sub-floor, with a J-bracket that allows you to protected it under the subfloor... thus.. pulling the sub-floor backbone down onto the floor joist. Squeak Enders are installed from under the floor, and can be installed moderately quickly... they run something like $7 at most building supply stores.
One more scenario... if youre hardwood floor is installed over a concrete slab....then the squeak is the flooring rubbing against the near peice...if this was installed as a floating floor, it vehicle the floor wasnt glued properly within that section. Again, you can try the powder trick, and basically plan on adding more powder again and again, as time go by...or the boards can be pulled up and replaced.. with more comfort given to the installation.
If you want to try the powder solution... an old fashioned ketchup squeeze bottle works pretty capably... lets you 'squirt' some powder right down into the seam. Dont hold your facade too close when doing this.. hehehe.
Ok... just to cover the basis.... since you mention 'creak'.... Mobile homes will have a creaking jingle when a lag bolt that holds the steel frame, and floor joist together become loose. The lag bolts are located along the 'outer' side of the long parallel I-beams of the steel frame, and near is a lag bolt on the tip of the triangular 'wings' or extensions that are placed every so commonly down the length of the home. Usually, its the fill bolt along the I-beam that has come loose... Ive in actual fact found quite a few of these that be over-torqued at the factory, and stripped out during transport. Simple fix is to crawl under nearby with a socket wrench and tighten them up. Whenever I found one stripped, I'd paste in a popsicle stick, or small dowel, to back 're-fill' the bolt hole... then drive the fill bolt back surrounded by. In some of the worse stripouts.. I'd completely fill the hole next to glue/dowel, and drill a new pilot hole after it have set.
Good Luck