8 Ways To Stop Your Squeaky Floor Boards Creaking

Creaking:

Creaking means a sharp, irritating, and disturbance creating sound. Creaking is similar to the sound of scratching.

Creaking of Floor:

A creak is a sound of low frequency but its pitch is extremely high. You can assume an example in mind like when you are rubbing chalk very forcefully on the board then the irritating sound produced in the result is s most similar to the creek’s sound.
Your floor is creaking because something is moving. so the answer to the question that why our floor is squeaking is that either the two pieces of tiles rubbing or morning against each other.

Preventions:

I am gone share 8 effective tips that help you to know that how to prevents the floor from creaking.

1. In section of shims into gaps:

This is the simplest method to prevent floor creaking for the implementation firstly you have to examine and deduct the problem. Go to the basement while the other ones should walk on the upper floor. You have to deduct the squeaking sound location which is produced by walking of other ones. Once you find the gap then hold shims in your hand and carefully insert it between the gaps.

2. Fill long gaps with construction adhesive:

We usually prefer slims insertion when gaps are minor when there are multiple gaps so there is a need for multiple shims and in this way you have to force the shim into the gap too hard so as a result, your floor may uplift. An uneven floor is more annoying than the creaking noise so for longer gaps, it is much better to use constructive adhesive as compare to multiple shims. We can use a caulking gun to fill the gap with adhesive directly.

3. Stable environment in your home:

The floor of our home is greatly affected by the external fluctuation of the environmental factor which affects the home floor like temperature humidity level, water, and UV light.
With the change of environment, some minors change make minors errors as major ones. So we have to carefully notice each and everything that may affect the floor if we keep our house at constant temperature and humidity level we can get rid of the problem of the creaking floor to a large extend.

4. Eliminate water damage:

Seepage water from different ways in a house cause floor creaking like. Leakage from sinks some time from water tanks or bathtubs accelerate the Damage level of your floor and stairs and the seepage of water leads to the gap formation also create some loose portion in the floor that further cause creaking of floor, so always wipes off standing water and use specially designed products or equipment for cleaning purpose.

5. Addition of lubrication at creaky location:

A lubricant is used to make the surface slippery or smooth. As we know creaking is caused due to the rubbing of two tiles against each other so there is a lot of friction between two moving tiles. So the purpose of adding lubricant is to eliminate friction and making the surface smooth. So if we sprinkle any lubricant like talcum powder or graphite powder in the gaps and then place any cloth in that place. Soon that lubricant will work and move down to cracks. So in short it heals cracks and slows down the creating sound.

6. Protection from UV radiation:

UV radiation or lights stand for ultraviolet radiation coming or emitted by the sun are harmful toxic as for skin as well as floor buildings and floor of the house. This radiation not only discolors buildings but also causes gaps due to these gaps damaging moisture traps and humidity level increase which causes floor creaking. SO we have to make sure that our floor is not exposed to sunlight keep your house windows covered even every hole of the house should cover so that UV light doesn’t get inside.

7. Correct Use of rugs:

It is very essential to make sure that quality of the rug is according to our floor because choosing the bad quality of rugs also leads to damage of floor staining mat should avoid nonstaining mat should be your preference rugs of cotton, jute and worsen backing is more suitable for the floor than others.

8. Use of screw instead of a nail:

Screws are better than nail for floors especially when establishing subfloor. Because they do not create gaps to loosen or pull out the floor so we should always give preference to screw as compare to nail.