Hi: My husband recently installed clear 3/4 inch select and better maple hardwood. It looks fantastic. However, we have sounds – squeaks – when we walk on it, just soft little squeaks in some areas. Here’s the process he used. – acclimatized hardwood for four months in the room in which it is installed – screwed down the plywood subfloor with flooring screws along the joists resulting in no squeaks in the subfloor – where necessary laid down levelling compound – laid down prescribed flooring paper – used 2 inch cleats in the first hundred square feet with a flooring gun – balance was 2 inch flooring staples – it is finished with shoe moulding and maple wood transition strips. Flooring runs are nice and tight. When we walk on it there are soft little squeaks here and there, where leveled and not leveled and where cleats and where staples. We can’t find a pattern to explain the noise. Any suggestions? Scrubble4
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you may wish to post this question at where most of the regulars have moved to here
http://forums.delphiforums.com/breaktimeclass/start
or here
http://www.quittintime.com/
Some of us would rather go down with the ship.
It's one thing to support
It's one thing to support that site, it's another to send folks there.
IMO, such posts are inappropriate (especially if, as your profile suggests, you have only belonged to this forum for a week)- other opinions will vary.
Well, let's put it this way:
Well, let's put it this way: The OP has been here for 2 days and the only responses that she's gotten that is anyway useful is the one directing her to the other site.
I can't answer her questions & I hate to somebody's serious question generating nothing but bickering about etiquette. So, I guess I'm gonna add to the bickering.
People here, even before the disaster, frequently sent posters to JLC, the John Bridge tile site, & other sites when their questions weren't getting adequately answered by the, then, current residents. Even then, many of the frequent responders also visited/used other forums. What's the difference???
The concern ought to be with answering the OPs question, not chastising someone for providing a reference where she may get additional or more timely info.
Ed
Those are reasonable points, re answers, but the part of the message saying "that's where the regulars have gone" is not within the examples you analogized to.
I am pretty edged off by the forum and changes and decisions, but I still don't think this is the appropriate venue for such "politicking"
Your mileage may vary, of course.
To the OP, was the flooring laid up perpendicular to the joists? Whenever possible with hardwood, I lay them perpendiculr for better support, and better fastening.
If installed perpendiculr, disregard this post, and have a sparkling day
The install all sounds good except for the long acclimation period, flooring left uninstalled that long might be inclined to crook, twist and bow a bit. Probably though if that was the problem it would be visible in the joints. Other obvious possibilities are it isn't as tight to the floor as you would want or it isn't as well milled as it should be. Either way it will probably serve as a good floor for a long while. I don't begrudge a wood floor a few squeaks myself, after all this stuff comes from trees.
Problem already solved with talcum powder ...
http://forums.delphiforums.com/breaktimeclass/messages?msg=700.9