How To Fix Squeaky Floorboards Without Removing Carpet

How to stop squeaks in hardwood floors.

How to fix squeaky floorboards without removing carpet.

If you ve got a squeaky hardwood floor the same procedure applies as carpet it s just a little trickier because you ll have to blend repairs into the existing surface. Follow the instructions and your job will be done in less than half a day. Instructions to fix floor squeaks without removing carpet. To fix a floor covered with deep pile carpet drive a wallboard screw through the carpet and pad into the floor joist.

If you ve got a hardwood floor you can obviously skip this step and go straight to finding the joists. Squeaks usually occur when a gap appears between the joist below and your sub floor. This can cause subfloor nails to pop loose and the subfloor. Remove the carpet over the squeaky area if necessary.

1 use a hammer to locate a floor joist within the squeaky section of floor. Don t pound the shims because they could lift the floorboards and cause more squeaking. Fixing a squeaky floor that s carpeted can be challenging. To fix a squeaky carpeted floor you might have to try a few times until you get the squeak to stop.

It s not necessary to have to pull up any of your carpet to fix and with just a few simple tools you can easily fix this problem in an afternoon. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to repair a squeaky floor through a carpet. If you ve got a squeaky and carpeted floor however you ve got to make the decision to either cut a small strip of it up to install under or use screws that can be used through carpeting. Joists are wooden or steel beams that run across the length of your house and support the floors.

3 chuck the joist finding screw into the drill driver. Once again use a stud finder to locate the joists in the neighborhood of the squeaking floor they ll be sitting 1 to 1 inches under a hardwood floor so a deep scan. 2 tap the carpeted floor with the hammer and listen for dull thud indicating a joist below.