Loose Boards Under Carpet

The house is about 44 years old.

Loose boards under carpet.

Any ideas or suggestions. Fixing a squeaky floor that s carpeted can be challenging. The living room is not carpeted but the bedrooms are. Should we use a screw or a nail to try and resecure it.

I was going to remove the carpet to have a look but might cause the carpet to go loose its original place. How to fix plywood flooring that has popped up under the carpet. Floors get squeaky when wood dries out either finished wood or a wooden subfloor. Hi jeff we live in a two story house and the boards under the carpet are large squares as seen in the garage ceiling not hard wood boards.

It sounds like the boards may have been lifted at some point and not screwed back down correctly you would need to remove the carpet screw down loose boards and then ply over the top of the existing floor using a 6mm ply. Squeaks in the wood or plywood subfloor under carpeting are usually caused by loose nails in the subfloor or joints in the subfloor rubbing together. A plywood subfloor often squeaks when it separates from the joists but it doesn t have to make any noise at all to give you a. This isn t the same as having a floor squeak when you step on it which simply indicates that the subfloor isn t tightly fastened to the floor joist in one area.

The carpet is loose in the affected areas and seems to have waves or wrinkles in it rising from the surface. I have been told they may have compacted matter in the center and perhaps would not grab the screw. If you can feel a soft spot in the floor under the carpet the subfloor has likely been weakened or damaged. Any pointers on how to isolate the spot to work on since it seems to cover a few feet as you walk across it.

How to fix loose floor boards. This can cause subfloor nails to pop loose and the subfloor. Carefully pull back the carpeting from the tack strip on a wall near the squeak. What are your thoughts.

We have a squeeky board under the carpet on a second floor room. This is known as buckling and may be referred to as wrinkling or stretching. I have squeaky floor boards in the living room and in the bedrooms. Floorboards are either nailed or screwed into floor.

Loose floor boards under carpet. Would this squeaky floor kit work on these board. To fix a squeaky carpeted floor you might have to try a few times until you get the squeak to stop.