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    Engineered floor is creaking

    Okay. Thanks to you all for your advice. It looks like I will need to lift the floor if I am going to sort this out properly. However the boards are all held together pretty firmly (given they needed to be hammered together to get them into place) so taking them apart if far from easy...
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    Engineered floor is creaking

    It is not possible to get underlay to the affected area, it is too far from the edge of the floor. Does any one have any other ideas to help alleviate this problem? I have read some posts which suggest injecting an expanding foam into the floor in the affected area. I can see the logic of...
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    Engineered floor is creaking

    Thanks again. I have spent some time looking at this and have reached the conclusion that the likely culprit is the subfloor. After spending some time "bouncing around" on it and moving a level around is looks like my floor has an area which is slightly lower than the surrounding area...
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    Engineered floor is creaking

    Thanks for your reply. I will double check around every side (tomorrow now) and come back to you but I am pretty certain I have checked everywhere as this was my first thought. I do not know whether my subfloor is out enough to make a difference. It looked perfectly good to me and...
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    Engineered floor is creaking

    I have just fitted around 80% of my new engineered wood floor. I have laid it on an underlay with a DPM on a concrete subfloor. The wood floor itself is hammered together tongue and groove and has an interlocking system. It is not glued. However I have just noticed that it has risen up in...
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