My wife tends to walk on her heels / puts her feet down quite hard when she walks. We have a lodger downstairs and it's driving them crazy, it's...
All the other plywood boards in the room are already glued and screwed down, so we'll only have access to a 1.2m x 2.4m area underneath the board...
Hi Alban, there aren't any stud walls directly underneath where the ply sheet in question is situated. Would sistering just the middle 1.2 meters...
Update: I've had another carpenter come around and take a look and he reckons that the problem is because where the creaking is is mid span and...
I'm not sure if there are noggins between the joists under this particular board, I guess if my chippy has to resort to pulling the whole board up...
Not yet, although the thought did cross my mind. The problem is that the existing (creaky) sheet is glued down with PVA, so I guess it'll be a...
I've just had a new subfloor put down for the whole of the top floor of my house, using 18mm structural hardwood plywood. All of the sheets are...
Hi Alban, the distance between the 3 joists that I can see are 417mm on one side (between joists 1 and 2) and 365mm on the other side (between...
Thanks Spacey, I was going to use the 18mm structural premium hardwood core plywood from MP Moran (it won't let me paste the link in here), do you...
Perhaps I could put down ramboard permanently between the carpet and the underlay?
Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on protecting sub-flooring from moisture. I'm having completely new flooring put in upstairs (subfloor,...
Ok perfect, I know what we should be doing now. Thanks again for your help, it's much appreciated!
Thanks a lot for your advice. Is there no point putting joist caps on then?
My girlfriend and I have recently bought a house, but the floorboards upstairs are incredibly squeaky, it's all chipboard. We're planning on...
