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Finally fixed that squeaky floorboard in the hallway after 2 years
I moved into my house in Raleigh back in 2022 and that one board near the bathroom door has been driving me crazy every time I stepped on it. Last week I grabbed a box of screws and some wood glue from the garage and spent an hour shimming it from underneath in the crawlspace. Has anyone else dealt with a stubborn squeak that took way too long to get around to fixing?
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margareto267h ago
The crawlspace approach is solid, but here's a weird one - check if your floor joists are actually resting on the sill plate properly. I had a squeak that drove me nuts for a year until I realized the joist had shrunk and was just barely touching the rim board. A couple of shims between the joist and the sill plate killed the noise completely. Nobody ever talks about checking that connection point.
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emmaclark12h ago
Baby powder worked on mine, just sprinkled it in the cracks and stomped around until it stopped.
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