Posted: 3/23/2011 5:50:32 PM EDT
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Just doing some Googlins. Pretty damned ingenious. Project for this weekend.  http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20045284,00.html |
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Usually a floor squeak is caused by a metal fastener rubbing the side of a floor joist. It could be a nail, screw, or even a joist moving in a joist hanger. I have used one of the floor squeak kits and in many cases it will work. but not always. In may cases I have had to do some serious work to find and fix the problem. When I ran a framing crew, my guys were always instructed to not scrimp on sub floor adhesive on the joists and even a squirt into joist hangers before placing the joists. After gluing the joist hangers, I rarely had a problem. |
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Quoted: Usually a floor squeak is caused by a metal fastener rubbing the side of a floor joist. It could be a nail, screw, or even a joist moving in a joist hanger. I have used one of the floor squeak kits and in many cases it will work. but not always. In may cases I have had to do some serious work to find and fix the problem. When I ran a framing crew, my guys were always instructed to not scrimp on sub floor adhesive on the joists and even a squirt into joist hangers before placing the joists. After gluing the joist hangers, I rarely had a problem. Dammit. Don't say that. There's a finished basement under there.  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Got any screws left? Wanna sell it? I only need like 10 screws and the kit comes with 100.I still have the kit I used back years ago. Worked great but now I live in a ranch on a slab You can have them all. I checked what I have left. One mounting tool, one joist finder, approximately 50 plus screws. IM me a mailing address and I'll send everything to you. FB |
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Quoted: Quoted: Got any screws left? Wanna sell it? I only need like 10 screws and the kit comes with 100.I still have the kit I used back years ago. Worked great but now I live in a ranch on a slab You have no idea how many screws you need until you are done  If the only reason your floor is squeaking is that the subfloor is moving a little and rubbing a loose nail or whatever, this will get the trick done. If your house is like mine and was built by drunk monkeys, it will take some radical steps going from both above and below to get things simmered down. The real fun ones are squeaks that magically appear about 12 feet from where you stepped and are deviously hard to pinpoint. So you need two guys, one jumping up and down like some sort of jerk and another one crawling around on the other side of the room on his hands and knees with his ear to the ground muttering to himself "now how in the fuck could this be". I finally gave up and decided my time was better spent sitting on the couch drinking beer in my underwear. I'll make sure my next house is right, I'm done with this bitch. I did get the living room and kitchen all squared away, but it was the master bedroom that pushed me over the edge. It got to a point that I was staring down the barrel of a complete tear out and remodel. That was the day I set down my tools and said fuck this. |
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Quoted: When I ran a framing crew, my guys were always instructed to not scrimp on sub floor adhesive on the joists and even a squirt into joist hangers before placing the joists. After gluing the joist hangers, I rarely had a problem. If only there were more like you  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Got any screws left? Wanna sell it? I only need like 10 screws and the kit comes with 100.I still have the kit I used back years ago. Worked great but now I live in a ranch on a slab You have no idea how many screws you need until you are done If the only reason your floor is squeaking is that the subfloor is moving a little and rubbing a loose nail or whatever, this will get the trick done. If your house is like mine and was built by drunk monkeys, it will take some radical steps going from both above and below to get things simmered down. The real fun ones are squeaks that magically appear about 12 feet from where you stepped and are deviously hard to pinpoint. So you need two guys, one jumping up and down like some sort of jerk and another one crawling around on the other side of the room on his hands and knees with his ear to the ground muttering to himself "now how in the fuck could this be". I finally gave up and decided my time was better spent sitting on the couch drinking beer in my underwear. I'll make sure my next house is right, I'm done with this bitch. I did get the living room and kitchen all squared away, but it was the master bedroom that pushed me over the edge. It got to a point that I was staring down the barrel of a complete tear out and remodel. That was the day I set down my tools and said fuck this. The house was built in 02 and the only squeaks it has it just down the main hallway. Only about a 3ft X 10ft span and it only squeaks on about the second half of that. If I put 2 a foot apart in the middle of the halway on each joist in the length of the entire hallway I'll only use 25-30 screws or so I think. I'm pretty sure from the sound of it it's a wood on wood squeak. We'll see soon.
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I had an uncle who, prior to getting new carpet was determined to fix his squeaky floor. Armed with a box of screws and screw gun, he went into the room and everyplace that squeaked when he stepped got a screw in it. before long the floor was full of screws and no sign of stopping the squeaking! Turns out it was his shoe that was squeaking!
We laughed our asses off on that one! |
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Never knew anything like this existed...TAG!  The product: http://www.123itsdone.com/ |
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I had an uncle who, prior to getting new carpet was determined to fix his squeaky floor. Armed with a box of screws and screw gun, he went into the room and everyplace that squeaked when he stepped got a screw in it. before long the floor was full of screws and no sign of stopping the squeaking! Turns out it was his shoe that was squeaking!
We laughed our asses off on that one! I LOL'd Everyone has that crazy uncle |
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Quoted: I had an uncle who, prior to getting new carpet was determined to fix his squeaky floor. Armed with a box of screws and screw gun, he went into the room and everyplace that squeaked when he stepped got a screw in it. before long the floor was full of screws and no sign of stopping the squeaking! Turns out it was his shoe that was squeaking! We laughed our asses off on that one! 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Got any screws left? Wanna sell it? I only need like 10 screws and the kit comes with 100.I still have the kit I used back years ago. Worked great but now I live in a ranch on a slab You have no idea how many screws you need until you are done If the only reason your floor is squeaking is that the subfloor is moving a little and rubbing a loose nail or whatever, this will get the trick done. If your house is like mine and was built by drunk monkeys, it will take some radical steps going from both above and below to get things simmered down. The real fun ones are squeaks that magically appear about 12 feet from where you stepped and are deviously hard to pinpoint. So you need two guys, one jumping up and down like some sort of jerk and another one crawling around on the other side of the room on his hands and knees with his ear to the ground muttering to himself "now how in the fuck could this be". I finally gave up and decided my time was better spent sitting on the couch drinking beer in my underwear. I'll make sure my next house is right, I'm done with this bitch. I did get the living room and kitchen all squared away, but it was the master bedroom that pushed me over the edge. It got to a point that I was staring down the barrel of a complete tear out and remodel. That was the day I set down my tools and said fuck this. The house was built in 02 and the only squeaks it has it just down the main hallway. Only about a 3ft X 10ft span and it only squeaks on about the second half of that. If I put 2 a foot apart in the middle of the halway on each joist in the length of the entire hallway I'll only use 25-30 screws or so I think. I'm pretty sure from the sound of it it's a wood on wood squeak. We'll see soon. I didn't forget you. As soon as the PO is open on Tuesday I'll ship it out. Sorry for the delay. FB |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Got any screws left? Wanna sell it? I only need like 10 screws and the kit comes with 100.I still have the kit I used back years ago. Worked great but now I live in a ranch on a slab You have no idea how many screws you need until you are done If the only reason your floor is squeaking is that the subfloor is moving a little and rubbing a loose nail or whatever, this will get the trick done. If your house is like mine and was built by drunk monkeys, it will take some radical steps going from both above and below to get things simmered down. The real fun ones are squeaks that magically appear about 12 feet from where you stepped and are deviously hard to pinpoint. So you need two guys, one jumping up and down like some sort of jerk and another one crawling around on the other side of the room on his hands and knees with his ear to the ground muttering to himself "now how in the fuck could this be". I finally gave up and decided my time was better spent sitting on the couch drinking beer in my underwear. I'll make sure my next house is right, I'm done with this bitch. I did get the living room and kitchen all squared away, but it was the master bedroom that pushed me over the edge. It got to a point that I was staring down the barrel of a complete tear out and remodel. That was the day I set down my tools and said fuck this. The house was built in 02 and the only squeaks it has it just down the main hallway. Only about a 3ft X 10ft span and it only squeaks on about the second half of that. If I put 2 a foot apart in the middle of the halway on each joist in the length of the entire hallway I'll only use 25-30 screws or so I think. I'm pretty sure from the sound of it it's a wood on wood squeak. We'll see soon. I didn't forget you. As soon as the PO is open on Tuesday I'll ship it out. Sorry for the delay. FB  |
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I might add, the kit itself was better than I imagined. It had the joist finder, the tripod, screws and the driver. I thought my joists were on 24 inch centers but turns out it was 18". Without the joist finder it would have been a serious pain in the ass. Find joist, shoot one screw, then measure and double check.
Worked awesome. If you got carpeted squeakiness, I recommend the kit! |