You know what gets on MY nerves??.....

[Stanley Steamer]

it's a squeaking noise coming from the floor in the doorway to my bathroom.....the house was built in 1989, and I guess many years of trips in and out of the bathroom has loosened the plywood sub floor.....I'm tempted to just use a stud finder(remotely since I always set those off) to find the floor joists and zip a screw right through the linoleum.....it'd be better to pull the carpet/padding back at the door jamb, but I don't have any way to stretch the carpet back.....wonder if I could get under the house and find the spot and shoot some liquid nail into the gap and see if that would fix it??....probably be hard to do.....

[Titan]

it's a squeaking noise coming from the floor in the doorway to my bathroom.....the house was built in 1989, and I guess many years of trips in and out of the bathroom has loosened the plywood sub floor.....I'm tempted to just use a stud finder(remotely since I always set those off) to find the floor joists and zip a screw right through the linoleum.....it'd be better to pull the carpet/padding back at the door jamb, but I don't have any way to stretch the carpet back.....wonder if I could get under the house and find the spot and shoot some liquid nail into the gap and see if that would fix it??....probably be hard to do.....

First of all, I know nothing. That's about it for my help. But, seriously, I read a couple of years ago about ways to fix that problem from underneath the floor. I encountered that when I had new hardwood installed throughout he house. I had a squeak that bugged me, and still does, so I never had it fixed. But I read a lot of stuff online about how it's done. I said all that to say this... it's possible without screwing the floor up.

[fudgie]

Yea your better off going under and glue it. You could also screw and glue another board next to it. Wont allow it to move down that way.

I dont remember hearing it the other day.   

[scoot]

Turn up the radio......Done!

[larswlvs]

Lock the bathroom door and get a port-a-potty.

[MacDragon]

Slam a headless nail right through there to the stud and tap it with another nail to send it below grade... done

[Billinva]

The following worked for me. My squeak was at the entrance to the den and squeaked every time someone walked across the floor. The tops of the floor joists were not level in that area and allowed the floor to flex downward. The top of one of the joists wasn't even touching the floor. I went to the basement( in your case under the house) and drove some thin shims between the top of the joist and the floor. The shims kept the floor from flexing and stopped the squeaking.

[Hoser]

Talk about squeeking, try living in a house built in 1929!  I kinda like it.  Hoser 

[art]

Somebody on this board said honda molypaste was good stuff,try it.

[BamaDrifter64]

Add some Dynabeads...that'll stop the wobble which is causing the squeak!   

Dave

[Davemn]

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20045284,00.html

[scoot]

I was going to recommend oiling the squeak, but not sure what would be the best to use. Synthetic or regular.

[musclehead]

why are you worried about a squeek any way? what are you doing in the bathroom that you need to be stealthy?

you could go blind ya know 

[Stanley Steamer]

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20045284,00.html

Sweet......wonder where I can buy that set up?........

[Stanley Steamer]

Yea your better off going under and glue it. You could also screw and glue another board next to it. Wont allow it to move down that way.

I dont remember hearing it the other day.   

[fudgie]

Talk about squeeking, try living in a house built in 1929!  I kinda like it.  Hoser 

Yep, late 1800's early 1900's here. I sleep better when I can hear the mice run up the walls, esp since its not insulated. 

[RoadKill]

If that's your biggest problem, Stan , just be thankfull you don't look like Fudgie!   

[Stanley Steamer]

If that's your biggest problem, Stan , just be thankfull you don't look like Fudgie!   

True....I should count my blessings!!......

[alph]

we must have had the same builder.  our house was built in 2000, i'd like to hunt down those idiots and and and, i don't know.......  but who ever did the sheet rock was an idiot, not knowing how to screw it down, i've repaired over a dozen spots were the screw heads have broken through and can be seen.  along with the floors squeeking (nearly everywhere) thankfully the electrical was done decent, haven't had any issues with that (except for the one smoke detector on the second floor that goes off for no reason at 2am, while i'm working nights, scaring the hell out of the kids.....)

[MacDragon]

Talk about squeeking, try living in a house built in 1929!  I kinda like it.  Hoser  

HaHa.  My house in Ipswich, Ma. was built by an old sea Captain, Tobias Lakeman, in 1690.  It is the house way to the right, through the trees in this bad phone pic. Brown with the tan door. There are more historic homes in Ipswich than any other place in the US.




7 fireplaces, Pinewood plank floors and not a level one in the house.

Here is a better pic from the Historic Society.
 http://www.bikenewengland.com/ipswich_houses/east_76_lakeman_1690.jpg

[fudgie]

If that's your biggest problem, Stan , just be thankfull you don't look like Fudgie!   

Hey I get all the women money can buy! 

[The Anvil]

Talk about squeeking, try living in a house built in 1929!  I kinda like it.  Hoser  

HaHa.  My house in Ipswich, Ma. was built by an old sea Captain, Tobias Lakeman, in 1690.  It is the house way to the right, through the trees in this bad phone pic. Brown with the tan door. There are more historic homes in Ipswich than any other place in the US.




7 fireplaces, Pinewood plank floors and not a level one in the house.

Here is a better pic from the Historic Society.
 http://www.bikenewengland.com/ipswich_houses/east_76_lakeman_1690.jpg

Great town. I'm through there on a regular basis.

[Skinhead]

My sister had her wedding reception @ the Crane Castle on Ipswich Bay.  Quite a place.

[MNBill]

Check your local rent-all place. They rent carpet stretchers and they are not hard to use.