Hi,
Iv just moved into my new house, and its great......apart from the floor boards. There those cheap woodchip ones, and they bang, creak, and pop whenever you walk around upstairs, and it ecos down stairs quite alot.
Anyway, In one room I have lifted the carpet and put a load of screws down (one next to every nail)...this has helped, but has not totaly solved the problem in that one room. All the floor boards on the whole floor are connected, and the wall are partition walls that sit ontop of the boards, so even though its helped in that room, walking around causes noise in other rooms, as the effect passes under the walls
obviously I plan to screw the rest of the boards down, but this brings me to my questions...
1. Some of the partition walls pass over parts of the boards that would need to be screwed down..so I cannot see anyway to actually screw that bit down because theres a wall on top if it. Does anyone have any surgestions?
2. Assuming I screw the boards down, and its still making noise, how much of a job would it be to lift all the boards and replace them with somthing other than woodchip, this is not somthing I would do, I would have to get somone into do it...but is it a realistic thing to do, how much would it cost, and how much time would it take (we are in a small/avarage 3 bedroom uk house)?
Any advice would be great
cheers
Iv just moved into my new house, and its great......apart from the floor boards. There those cheap woodchip ones, and they bang, creak, and pop whenever you walk around upstairs, and it ecos down stairs quite alot.
Anyway, In one room I have lifted the carpet and put a load of screws down (one next to every nail)...this has helped, but has not totaly solved the problem in that one room. All the floor boards on the whole floor are connected, and the wall are partition walls that sit ontop of the boards, so even though its helped in that room, walking around causes noise in other rooms, as the effect passes under the walls
obviously I plan to screw the rest of the boards down, but this brings me to my questions...
1. Some of the partition walls pass over parts of the boards that would need to be screwed down..so I cannot see anyway to actually screw that bit down because theres a wall on top if it. Does anyone have any surgestions?
2. Assuming I screw the boards down, and its still making noise, how much of a job would it be to lift all the boards and replace them with somthing other than woodchip, this is not somthing I would do, I would have to get somone into do it...but is it a realistic thing to do, how much would it cost, and how much time would it take (we are in a small/avarage 3 bedroom uk house)?
Any advice would be great
cheers