A thicker subfloor takes a 3-inch screw. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad. Use a heavy-duty drill to drive Phillips head wood screws through the subfloor into the floor joists.

Then, when someone walks across the floor, the flooring and/or subfloor moves up and down and rubs on the nails or screws, causing squeaking sounds. Fix the problem by installing a long Douglas ...

Just grab a strip of Strong-Drive WSV subfloor screws and load them, arrow first, into the Project Pro. The device is long enough to enable driving from a standing position, and you’ll never ...

A recent column on how to fix the squeaks in a carpeted floor before replacing the carpet generated a couple of questions with some twists. (See "Screw subfloor to joists to silence squeaking ...

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The subfloor lays atop joists that span the length of the floor. ... The cure for your floor is a couple of deck screws. The general location of the squeak will be obvious.

We have an older two-story home with oak floors on the first floor and carpet upstairs. We had them refinished several years ago and they still look very good but they are noisy when you walk over … ...

Q. I have a repair question about We live in a 12-year-old townhouse. Several attempts have been made by a contractor to get rid of squeaks in our second-level wood flooring by pulling up the carpe… ...

: We have several squeaky floors throughout our house along with a stair step that squeaks. Anyway, we are getting new carpet and thought that now is the time to get rid of the noise. How should we ...