Squeaky floor means it's time for crawl space duty / Noise most likely coming from bad subfloor nail job By Bill Burnett, Kevin Burnett April 8, 2006 Q: About a year and a half ago we bought and ...

Framers use nail guns that shoot nails as fast as an M-16 on full auto, and then they often “bounce fire” the gun on top of the subfloor, which makes for less-than-accurate nailing. The cure ...

Once you have found the nailing pattern on the subfloor, determine the distance between floor joists, which will usually be 16 or 24 inches. Then affix a piece of 1-inch masking tape to the carpet ...

Q: I recently had wall-to-wall carpet replaced in my home. There were a few floor boards that weren't too solid and I suggested nailing them but the installer said there was no need to, as the pad ...