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   Justus | Nov 30, 2002 02:22am | #1

   There are many products used to fasten decking materials from below, almost all of them are a sort of angle bracket. You could also use simple metal angle brackets available at any home store. Not the simple L shaped repair brackets, but the kind you would find in the same place you would find metal joist hangers and such. They are about three inches long and about an inch on each side.  Rockler.com may have some of what your looking for as well.

   Justus Koshiol

   Running Pug Construction

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   coonass | Nov 30, 2002 03:10am | #2

   GF and CS,

   I like to use store bought wedges and construction adhesive. Get somebody to walk above as you glue both sides of the wedge and tap it in. You may have to trim nail some from the top.

   KK

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   fdampier5 | Nov 30, 2002 03:20am | #3

   Why on earth would you want to stop the squeaks?  Modern floors have no soul, no music, no character.    heck there are dozens of ways to eliminate squeaks,  take a sheet rock screw and angle it into the joist and the floor. 

     But why?  I'm going just the opposite way.  I'm building my floors with timbers and planks which hopefully will develop into full song in time. 

     But I suppose someone sold you that floors should have no character......

    (never mind me, I'm a luddite)     ;-)

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   rez | Nov 30, 2002 03:52am | #4

   A while back I ran an add in the local paper for a slew of old house parts I had around.  Amazing the response I got. One lady called that had just built a new Victorian and was busy loosing doorknobs and trying to put squeaks in the floor to give it a lived-in feel. I happened to mentioned I had an old faux marble slate fireplace surround with eastlake carvings that had a crack on one facing and she about cried when I told her it wasn't for sale 'cause it was going in my house.

   kk- I always liked the commercial pine wedges at about a buck a pack. Light taps with no glue in case you want to change something or tap a little more later on. Let the thunder crack and the waves roar.

    We're going on.

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   luvmuskoka | Dec 03, 2002 06:47am | #5

   Frenchy,

   Guess ya never got busted by your old man at 3 in the morning.... drunk.... and...... ah.......ah.........ah........ stoned..... 'cause the friggin floors squeaked.....Ditch

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   Piffin | Dec 03, 2002 06:56am | #6

   At the house where I grew up, the stairs squeeked a little.

   I found that I could always tell which of my four brothers or mother was coming up the stairs by the way they squeeked. Individual body mechanics, I guess.

   After being gone for several years, I was back for a visit and was laying in my old bunk when one of the brothers came up and suddenly I realized which one it was by his squeek profile after only five or six steps.

   Funny the things that come back to you....

   Excellence is its own reward!

   "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.

   The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

   --Marcus Aurelius

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   luvmuskoka | Dec 04, 2002 02:17pm | #9

   Piffin,

   Your post brought back 30 year old memories. Laying in bed as a kid, I could tell which of my brothers or sisters was using the bathroom in the morning, just by the sound of their routine. ThanksDitch

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   Piffin | Dec 05, 2002 05:14am | #10

   Routine - that was a nice polite word. Gotta remember that one..

   Excellence is its own reward!

   "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.

   The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

   --Marcus Aurelius

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   fdampier5 | Dec 03, 2002 08:12pm | #7

   My favorite memory is of an old hardware store with squeeky wooden floors.  I toured the James J Hill house (a robber baron of the last century) and the wonderful sound of those squeeky wooden floors in that mansion was the reason I choose to use timber floors rather than plywood floors.  

     If you know that you are gonna sneak in late at night you can always spread talcum powder and sweep it into the cracks.    Takes several months (sometimes years) for the squeaks to come back. 

     Besides I grew up in one of those souless tract houses with plywood floors and I always liked how real wood sounded....

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   luvmuskoka | Dec 04, 2002 02:15pm | #8

   Or you could spread talcum powder on the steps so the old man stops sneaking up on you at 3 in the morn.Ditch