FAO 'Graeme' - Creaking floorboards

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Graeme,

After looking through previous posts (//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=149706#149706), I noticed that you had/have a similar problem to me...

You will find all of your floorboards are not built around the walls & room layout, hense making it impossible to replace the floorboards.

Our 1996 Barrett house (and our neighbours) has also had the most awful creaking noise upstairs, only in two rooms. After years of putting up with it I also lifted the carpets and screwed hundreds of screws into the boards and glued inbetween all the boards BUT it still creaks It fixed a little bit but I have determined that the creaking is not from the floorboards at all.

The plasterboard wall between bedroom 1 & 3 has nails which hold this to the boards, it it these nails that causes the creaking that sends shivers down our spine. I have been meaning to remove the skirting on one side and attempt to remove/cut these nails.

...I was wondering if you have managed to cure the dreaded creaking &, if so, how did you go about doing it?

PS. I have screwed the floorboards to the joists around the area in question, on both sides of the plasterboard wall, but the creaks remain!

Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

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If anyone else has had this problem, or could offer some advice on the best way to approach resolving it, that would be great.

Thanks.