How Do You Prevent Squeaking Wood Floors?
Wood floors are beautiful and highly attractive. They require care and work to keep them looking their best. Squeaks can develop in your floors due to poor craftsmanship or failure of flooring adhesive. There are simple steps you can take to cure those squeaks in the night. Step 1 Walk along the floor and find the points at which it squeaks. Placing a finishing nail at these points will tend to reduce the squeaks as these come from floor boards rubbing together or from the wood slipping against the nail that is already in the floor but is not holding. Step 2 Drive a coarse thread screw through the floorboard into the floor joist. This remedy is for large areas of squeaking. It is possible that the builder failed to apply a flooring adhesive to the subfloor before placing the wood floor down. Failure to use floor adhesive allows the subfloor and the wood top layer to rub against each other and generate a squeak. Step 3 Rub linseed oil into the wood floor in the area of the squeak. One c
