Repair squeaky wood floors, stepping into silence

Repair squeaky wood floors. If there’s anything every hardwood floor owner has thought about, one time or another, it’s how to repair squeaky wood floors. Although wood floors indeed provide many advantages, when they start to squeak, it can quickly become a great annoyance. Thankfully, that problem can be fixed.

Depending on the type of your wood floor, it can be an easy task, or take some extra work to achieve absolute silence. Usually, the squeaking noise is caused by friction of two moving surfaces: one being the floor, depressed by the weight of the person walking on it, and the other being either a support joist or a loose floor board. In both cases, you’ll need to fill the gaps or tighten the floorboards.

In most cases, inserting shims between the floor joist and the sub-floor or fastening a sister joist, requires you to access the floor boards from below. If that isn’t possible, you can resort to nail the floorboard from above and use putty to cover the nail holes. That’s the easiest solution for most cases. In just a few minutes you’ll be able to let that squeaky floor be a long gone memory.