Creaky floors and joists

ghpcfan · 2007-02-07T11:52:45+00:00

I hope someone can help me with this problem. We bought this townhousetwo years ago. When we first saw the house it was empty. We had thehome inspection and nothing really was wrong with the house. Then theday we moved in, after the movers were gone, we found that the secondfloor was very, very creaky. It was really, really bad. The worst partwas the master bedroom. We called a few people to look at it and acarpet company came over and they lifted all the carpeting and screweddown the floors. It was great. There was one problem area, about athree foot area next to the wall adjacent to the master bathroom (themaster bath has creaks too, but that wasn't screwed down because ofthe tile). The guy put shims between the floor and the wall and it wasfine. We had no squeaks or creaks at all. That was done in May 2005.By December 2005 the creaks were back, but just in that one area bythe wall. But this time it sounded different, like the joists weremaking the noise. These were louder cracking sounds. We calledcontractors about this and one guy came out and noticed that the floorin that area dipped down a bit. He removed part of the subfloor tocheck the joists and thought they were okay, except that one of themwas a bit lower than the other. He put a different piece of wood backand suggested that we get all new subflooring and hardwood floorsinstalled. We weren't too sure about that and decided to get in touchwith the builder and the warranty company (the house has a ten yearstructural warranty, and we were in the 7th year). They came to checkit out and said that there was no structural problems. That was in May2006. A neighbor was there that day and he pulled the carpet backagain and screwed down the floors a second time. Again, no more noise.Now, Dec. 2006, the noise slowly comes back and today it seems thatthe subfloor is not creaking, but it is the joists that are makingthis loud cracking sound. The sound also appears in the bathroom andruns along about three or four...

Feb 07, 2007 20 Replies

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trader4 19 years ago

Can't you read? He said he has hardwood floors. And who's the dumbass?

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