Make sure there aren't any squeaks - if you are living in the basement you'll hear everything. Run a straight edge around the room and build up any dips (SLC, wood, etc). Use screws to make sure the subfloor is well fastened to the joists. When you pull it you'll likely find that your floor is diagonal laid solid wood. If you remove it you'll be able to address any issues with the subfloor. Material wise that stuff is $3.50 a sq ft new it is only 1/4" thick and yours has probably been refinished in the last 70 years, probably has some dents and not as thick as it was previously. Save it if you want / put it on CL someone will take it off your hands. You can probably remove it easily enough that it comes up undamaged for the most part. Here's the floor I currently have and the LVP that I want to add: I don't know anything about flooring, its my first house, been living in it for a week and I have never put down any flooring.I'm not sure if the wood is moving because of an uneven subfloor, maybe?.The wood itself looks nice and shiny, it just squeaks like crazy.My question is: Is there a way to fix the squeaks on the floor and put LVP on top, or is my only option to remove the hardwood floor and put the LVP in the subfloor with underlayment? My plan was to fix the squeaks and then put LVP on top, since this area of the house is going to be rented out.Ī lot of people told me not to remove the hardwood floors because it gives value to the house, but I think to myself, who wants a house with these hardwood floor squeaking (besides me, since I'm thinking as an investment property). I tried putting baby powder and all that. But I stopped, since I would have to screw down every single board. In some areas you just push the wood with your hand and you see the plank moving. I noticed that is mostly the boards rubbing against each other seems to be what is causing the squeaks. The hardwood floor squeaks everywhere, not in just a specific spot or area. The house has hardwood flooring all over the house. Using a pair of channel lock pliers, twist screw side to side and front and back until screw pops off.I just bought an old house that was build in the 1950s. Tip: Stop driving screw once screw head reaches top of carpet. Tip: Hold sub-floor down with your knees as much as you can to make sure that it is as tight as possible before driving the screw. Rotating the screw in a circle within the hole will help make the hole larger. Once you have found a joist, you will take your screw and turn it by hand to create a small hole in the carpet so that when the drill is used, that it does not ‘catch’ the carpet. Change direction and try going perpendicular. Tip: If you go beyond 16″ left or right without hitting a floor joist, it may mean that you are drilling in the direction that the floor joists run. Once you locate a joist, mark it off with tape. You can use this to locate the joists under your subfloor without damaging your carpet. Tip: Cut a 6″ or 8″ piece of wire coat hanger to attach into your drill. The trick, however, is to not damage your wall-to- wall carpet and to locate where the joists in your floor are located. Floor squeaks are caused by gaps between the sub-floor and the floor joists which have separated over time and can be fixed by simply reattaching that sub-floor back to the framing. It’s not necessary to have to pull up any of your carpet to fix, and with just a few simple tools you can easily fix this problem in an afternoon. Squeaky wood floors under carpet is an annoying problem with an easy, DIY solution.
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