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00:00 Intro
00:14 Step 1: Identify Joist Direction
01:05 Step 2: Carpeted Floor Squeaks
04:22 Addressing Additional Squeaks
05:26 Hard Flooring Squeaks
07:07 Other Videos You Might Like - Jak na to + styl
I've been a carpenter for over 40 years now. Unless you can absolutely say with zero doubt that there are no pipes or cables under your squeaky floor never ever wind screws in to your floor! Just don't do it. It will end in tears.
I did a room before I thought of this and spent the next month terrified something was going to happen. Been a few months and nothing yet. Didn't even think about it cause didn't mention it in instructions and know electrical isn't usually at the top by the decking. But found out my deep scan can pick electrical but wonder how well it works
So then what is the solution to squeaky floors?
@@SvEnjoyPro take up the carpet and puff talcum powder into the joints. Only use screws or nails if you know absolutely for sure that there’s no cables or pipes below.
As a fellow carpenter/joiner of 38 years, I agree. The way I do it is to lift a hatch in every area I am going to put down screws then feel as far as possible in every direction for pipes or cables, then batten and fix the hatch back down. Takes a bit longer but no way would I ever fix through a floor without knowing for sure. Squeaks are usually caused by the timber floor rubbing up and down on a nail shank. Using screws eliminates the movement so never use nails to ‘sort’ squeaks.
it is worth noting most pipes are going to be halfway down the joist, by code you can only go through joists at certain depths, so many inches and notch at X footage. A 3 inch construction screw should be fine the majority of the time. Anyway drill into anything and you might hit stuff that's just the reality tho.
As a plumber of 37 years I say, don't do this late at night as the call out charge will be double 😂
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Take it from someone who has learned the hard way. DO NOT DO THIS. Do not drill randomly to find joists - at some point you will find a pipe.
This is good advice
Very true. Some people have to learn the hard way
@Rapid Rabbit do not use drywall screws, those are for drywall.
@Rapid Rabbit 3 inch steel screws. They have specific sub floor type where there are no threads near the head of the screws
What a daft video 🙄
As others have said, I’m a builder, especially in the Uk where there’s a lot of shabby DIY and careless trades, there’s no way to predict what you have below, so please don’t randomly screw in to the floor, it will end badly.
Absolutely this, I had to redo the boards in my parents landing because when the plumber had put the boiler in and pipes he hadn't just cut gaps in joists and such he had literally removed about a 1.5m section of joists from the main walkway. The only thing keeping them from falling through was the carpet.
Central heating installations in UK are the cause of most damages like this. I’ve commented on other comments forgetting the US don’t have as much to worry about under the floor as we do. However as a Transco gas engineer I can confirm lots of gas pipes are hit too
Thanks for this mate 👍 I will be getting loads of call outs for heating pipe repairs after this 😂
I fixed a squeaky floor in my bedroom by just randomly screwing in floor screws. I knew it was a big risk but the way I avoided hitting any pipes or cables was by muttering "please don't be a pipe, please don't be a pipe, please don't be a pipe" as I was drilling and that seemed to do the trick.
I've been reading youtube comments for over 2 minutes now, and I can say with 100% certainty that you should always know what is under your floor before screwing into it. Or else bad things could happen!
I was thinking it. Then
You said it 🤣🤣🤣👍
Same lol
Our kitchen has a hoard of squeaky floors so when I saw this I’m like oh it’s that easy? But I went to the comment section and gathered that this guy clearly doesn’t know what he is doing, lol.
YOLO.
@@herculesbrofister265 Lol. "You only have one life so waste it fixing mistakes you could have avoided" Sounds about the average use of that phrase
Yeahhhh maybe I'll just deal with a squeaky floor lmao
I was a carpet installer for nearly 30 years. The squeak you hear is the sound of the wood floor rubbing the side of the nail (or staple. They use big staples to do subfloors floors sometimes). You fix it correctly by peeling back the carpet, and either driving or removing the nail and replacing it with screws. As others have said, you don't want to be in the kitchen watching water flow out of your light fixtures. Which I've seen. Don't just start poking your floors.
Let alone trying to screw through a loop pile carpet. This will not end well for anyone.
i was just about to write this too and ive never worked in flooring. These days anyone can make a video claiming to be good at something
@Hahz Dhshxc People and screens mate, its the new bible..lol
Peeling back the carpet and putting it back down is the tricky part.
This is madness! First thing I ever learned was never drive a screw or nail into the floor or wall without knowing with 100% certainty there are no pipes or cables. It's like a game of roulette lol
I’m sure as a homer owner that this person knew the lay out of pipes and Joyce’s I mean he starts the video with looking from the basement up I mean good thinking but kinda a comment not needed
Did you not see him filming from below? It sure looked like he saw what was underneath🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ don’t act like a know it all, you end up looking stupid
I mean he could always pull back his carpet right there……
@@xxray88jlxx it actually is because he only said to check the basement to see which way the joists are running not to check under where your drilling for pipes, wires, ect.
Reported the video for harmful, dangerous acts. Thanks, CZcams, for removing dislikes so bad info like this can spread.
Got disaster written all over this! Never just randomly screw into a floor without knowing exactly what's underneath 🤦♂️ (builder with 20 years experience)
Got disaster written all over this! Never just randomly screw into a floor without knowing exactly what's underneath 🤦♂ (Viewer with common sense)
@@adctd2gtr you're a disgrace to Adams's
@@adctd2gtr🤦
@@Iburn247 Adams*
If only we could see the dislikes
I’m an electrician. After lifting many floors and seeing what previous less conscientious trades do....DO NOT DO THIS!! Often electrical cables and water pipes lay in notches just below the underside of the floor boards. Lift the carpet, lift the floor and inspect before drilling into any floor!
Then the wires were installed against the code. Still, your warning is a good one.
There is no trade less conscientious than that represented by electricians. There is no need to notch joists for electric cables, it should be routed through holes made in the centre of the joist. I’m sure this doesn’t apply to yourself, just a general comment
@@handsfree1000 I agree completely. We see it more in older properties. But unless you’ve had a rewire or are certain that pipes and cables pass through the middle of joists as per regs, don’t drill into floors
What? All Wire and Pipe that is less that 1 3/4th inch from the screw side face of the Joist is to be covered with a Nail Plate that you will not be able to drill through. Where the hell did you get your certification?!?!?!?!
@@justinlast2lastharder749 chill your bean Rambo! Read the post. When we lift floor boards, we see pipes and cables running in notches just below the board! We obviously don’t do this now 🤦🏽♂️
My father was replacing ceramic tile in or bathroom. He found several places where carpenters missed nailing the subfloor down. 2 lbs of Rosen coated nails later, we had water on the floor below. We even had water filling up the globe on the kitchen light(remember the Three Stooges?). It took hours to remove sections of subfloor and replace the copper pipes. Don’t ever drill, screw or nail where you can’t see exactly what’s underneath. EVER!
No, I don't know what you mean by the globe on the kitchen light or three stages
the carpenters didnt miss nailing the subfloor. they intentionally didnt do what you did. it was more than likely glued where they didnt have nails.
@@gtarules1
The "globe" on the kitchen light is the glass cover that was obviously downstairs and located under the bathroom which is common so that plumbing runs within one wall and underneath the house.
The 3 Stooges were a comedy team from about the late 50's thru late 70's and had a television show by that name.
Hope that helps. 👌
@@Breacher141
And part of the reason I use PL for a few dollars more and not liquid nails for subflooring is exactly what happened here.
@@Breacher141 no they missed. production homes are churned out as fast as possible, using a nail gun to fasten subflooring makes it nearly impossible to tell when you miss the joist. and no construction crew just glues a sub floor down. The better companies will glue then screw it down.
As experienced tradesmen, I think we should all fully endorse this method for DIY enthusiasts. We could make a fortune, lifting carpets and floors to repair and replace damaged pipes and electrical wires...... and think of all of the ceilings and laminate floors that will need replacements from water damage.... This'll be great for business!!
Shady business.
It will be great for carpet installers as well after the screw catches a thread of the carpet and pulls a neat line right across the floor. (A little bit of learning is a dangerous thing!)
I totally agree! 🥱🙄
I waited until we replaced the carpet, pulled it up (or rolled it back) a day early, found joist lines based on previous nails, measuring and stud finding. Screwed floor boards down, they installed the carpet, and all good. Except for the one spot I missed that I step on every night on my way to bed so I can wake my wife. 😀
This video is for people who aren't changing their carpets, though. That said, I think the much safer and effective way would be to suck it up and roll the carpet back and do it safely.
@mur bot This is the way.
Same happened to me. Got all of them except a spot right next to my side of the bed, which started squeaking again a week after my anti-squeak campaign
THIS IS THE PERFECT WAY TO SCREW A PIPE OR ELECTRICAL CABLE. GENIUS!
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I drill holes in my carpet all the time just for fun, never thought about doing it to fix a squeaky board. Thanks!
Under appreciated comment…..and name 👍
I have a partially unfinished basement in my home I recently moved into. I was able to verify the direction of my joists, and how electrical/plumbing routes through them. Used about 8 screws and fixed my incredibly loud living room floor. Thank you for the video!
You forgot to mention the most important part of the whole video, I.e. don’t don’t don’t do this unless you are absolutely certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that there’s neither any gas pipes, water pipes, waste pipes, central heating pipes or cables whether electricity, telephone or satellite tv beneath the floor!
Also how do you know that the screw won’t catch a thread in the carpet and cause it to run, I.e. ruining your carpet?
Can you imagine that!?😂 Happily winding a screw in, a thread catches and you unravel a section of carpet as the screw goes through a pipe😉👍
@@firestorm755 exactly, that would be my worry. I would rather settle for a squeak or two👍🏻😉😹
@@firestorm755 Yep, and the 10mm oven cable.
Only Berber carpet can truly unravel and it has plenty of space between loops to make sure it doesn't...
@@bryandillard2150 no most carpets can unravel. Try putting screws through yours at home!
It’s a modern build house where all services go though the floors in the middle. So screwing down from the top is ok. But in an older house the pipes run at the top of the joists. And you will hit pipes. Number to times I’ve been out to repair that issue. I’m a plumber! Do not do this unless u are 100% sure. Be carful guys
I came across this video many years ago and I thought it was great. At the time it was not use for me, I did not have carpet floors. Now I moved to a house, installed carpets and I have a squeaky spot, today I came looking for this video! Thanks for making this video!
Most houses in the UK built since the1970s have concrete ground floors and wooden joist/board upper floors. On the upper floors builders run electricity cables and central heating water pipes along or through the joists. If you hit one of these you're in real trouble as one reviewer has already pointed out. The only way to secure your boards is to remove carpet/floor covering so you can see where the nails go thorough the boards and into the joists. You can then hammer new nails (or preferably use 25-30 mm screws) as close as possible to the old ones if any boards are loose and creaking.
Be carefull with the carpet. Depending on how the carpet is manufactured it is possible for the drill bit to grab the carpet fiber and create a nasty "run" you won't be able to repair.
durrrrrrrr
As a floor man that's installed thousands of floors of all types.. this has to be the dumbest idea I have ever seen. Go ahead, do this on a free floating laminate, berber carpet or vinyl floor. Your local floor covering store will be seeing you shortly. This will cause said floors to fail. Berbers are woven, which means that when this inevitably catches a thread, you have a neat little line running the entire length of the floor. Free floating laminates are normally very face hard, which will almost certainly cause this to snap off prematurely, pinning said floor, causing extreme stress on the joints and you can expect to see peaking and bowed boards the next time the temp drops or climbs. Vinyl floors that little hole over time will turn black and potentially cause a tear in the floor. Also since vinyl floors tend to be installed in rooms with high potential for wet applications, you just created a nice drain for all the moisture to get down and rot away the sub floor beneath it.. this obviously won't work on ceramic floors if they have concrete board underneath, even if they don't, see vinyl above if you wanna see what is gonna happen there. Hardwood floors, you are putting an ugly hole in it at best, at worst it won't go though and will again snap off early.. meaning it either does nothing, or you just made a nice spike to stab you in the foot later. All in all, don't do this. Deal with it until you want to replace your floors and then have it dealt with. Even if it does go through, heed the electricians and plumbers that will also tell you this is a really bad idea. This has the potential to cost you thousands in repair and replacements over a minor annoyance and a 10 cent screw. Just not worth it.
If you do any metal detecting, you can use your pin point detector to find the exact nail that is squeaking and then run your screw in. It works great and no special tool needed.
Powerful magnets can also be used to find the nails that are in joists. But on hardwoods and laminates, there are lots of nails that run along the seams where two pieces of flooring join together; you have to avoid detecting those nails if you are fixing a squeak where the subfloor isn’t adequately nailed to the joists.
You might want to pull a corner of the carpet and padding just to see what you’re dealing with before you try this. 15 years ago we did this and eliminated a squeaky floor. Now that we are upgrading, we discovered a beautiful oak floor underneath all of that… Now riddled with screw bodies! It took hours with a Dremel tool to try to get them below the surface in order to give us any chance of trying to reclaim the original floor. And even with that, we now have dozens of small holes that we hopefully can fill with a mix of sanding dust and clear filler.
In the basement, I would put wooden shims and lightly tap into place to where the joists meet the floor. Squeaks are mostly eliminated without putting unnecessary holes in the hardwood floor.
Yes, especially in this case where there is so much floor movement he can press it down with his hands…. It sounds though like he has drywall on the ceiling in the basement except in that closet.
This is a brilliant way to find out where all your pipes and wires are - just drive the finder screw in and when you hear gushing water or a loud bang, then you have found your pipes or wires.
Lol
Thanks, Nils! I'll have to use this on some wood flooring squeaks.
Imagine going into someone house or flat and drilling straight through a pipe or cable . Brilliant.
One clever feature of these screws that is not immediately obvious is that the thread pitch changes partway up the screw. The serves to help pull the subfloor down toward the joist as the screw reaches its final depth.
Ah yes, it's also reeeeeally clever that they have...NO HEAD TO HOLD ANYTHING DOWN. There is a reason Nails and Screws have heads to them and don't all look like Finish Nails. Also, what happens if it snaps before going flush? Which if it is sticking up a bit? What happens if it goes too far and now it's only holding 3/8ths of an inch of plywood instead of the 5/8ths it should be. There is a reason "Counter Sunk" screws aren't exactly kosher anymore...that's because doing so compromises the hold of that screw and when it pops, that screw becomes an obstacle that will either crack the flooring when you try to screw in another, or just prevent the floor from sucking in like you'd hope.
Firstly, squeeky floors are caused by movement of the flooring rubbing up and down on the nail. Lift up the carpet and screw directly beside the nails in the flooring that way you'll know that your not going to hit any pipes or wires, it should tighten the flooring down enough to eliminate any movement.
Secondly, when laying any flooring onto joists use D4 glue and only a couple of fixings per sheet of flooring just to hold it in place.
Using fewer fixings means you are less likely to have any squeeks in your floor, also using D4 adhesive that stuff will stick down anything you won't have to worry about the flooring lifting up!
Not always. They can be caused by timber shrinkage and a favourite is when plumbers install pipework between board runs so the boards don't actually have a fixing on one side. Seen that lots of times.
can you tell me more about this? is there any research to back this method up?... I've never heard this but interested to hear more?
@@carlosbourdet5415 Bro it's glue, nothing to get
That would fail inspection in my area.
Improper amount of fasteners will not be passing.
They also check for glue. It is required.
They profiled this tool on this old House out of Boston a few years ago, the key is to find your first joust and run string line to the next joust 16 on center once you have a trace line with the screws showing where all the jousts are drive them in
16 inches is the standard, but 12 and 24 inch spacing are also out there. And in really old (over a hundred years old) houses, there are sometimes going to be erratic spacings.
You been listening to my squeaky floors, Nils? Great video. Thank you
Haha, you know it, Gaurav! Thanks for watching!
If you use those colored WAX sticks, be warned that the next time the hardwood floor is recoated or refinished, it will REPEL the finish on all of those holes that were filled with wax and it will look UGLY. Matching colored wood filler should be used.
ITS A CARPET
@@JUST-UK-JAY he's talking about the part where he said to use it for softwood / hardwood floors
Someone wasn't paying attention 😂
Love finding natural teachers who know just the right amount and type of detail to include in an explanation/tutorial. New subbie! 👍
He forgot about the safety, I.e. puncturing a pipe or cable!
He has no idea what he's doing. He's ruined his floor and destroyed his warranty.
I see a lot of negative comments on this, but maybe I was just lucky, but this worked great for me. Thanks for posting this video. Fixed my annoying squeaky bedroom floor with three screws.
Glad to hear it helped. It has always worked well for us too.
First time homeowner with a partially used squeak no more kit. Thankful for the comments here.
Now I will be able to sneak out of the house when my wife is sleeping lol 😃😆😅🤣😂😉
Not any more lmao 😂
@@elmercastro6921 it's a joke. Just like you.
@@davekent20 🤣 that’s funny
😂😭
Ha ha 🤣
I learned something new today. Although wouldn’t a stud finder help locate the joist?
They can't seem to get through the carpet, padding and plywood effectively. I have 5 different stud finders and even my more advanced Walabot DIY couldn't give me a clear indication of the joists.
I want to install a stripper pole and I bought a stud finder I just want to know the information you provided at 0:58 is that used for ceiling joist as well?
@Chad Murphy no just a sub floor
the fact that you actually use that tool tells me everything i need to know about whether or not i should be taking home improvement advice from you.
I'm buy this!!!! I didn't even know this existed thought it was just something I had to deal with my squeaky floor
Awesome video, thx...
That is shocking, i can’t think of anything more dangerous than to screw blindly into the floor boards where all services to electricity, heating, and main water supply run. Good luck.
On modern homes you're pretty safe. They don't run wires or pipes 2" under the surface. There's predrilled holes in the center of joists about 8" under the floor. Its highly unlikely they'd get anywhere near the top if they do drill their own holes. I've been doing construction for 20 years and haven't ever hit a pipe or wire nailing hardwood but I hit a waterline once screwing drywall to the wall, and that was the plumbers fault for not putting a nail guard over the stud. So I think your pretty safe unless you have heated floors
Yep gotta agree with Tom Finnan, drilling them 70mm screws blindly into the floor is a recipe for disaster. What is surprising here is taking the carpet up and removing the ply isn’t that hard a job - this tool is solutionism at it’s worst
@@nickyp909 its a hard job for someone that doesn't know what their doing. If a body of carpet is connected by hallways to other rooms etc. You'd have to cut the carpet in places and re-seam everything and re-stretch. I charge $125 min to come out + $125 an hour to do carpet or any flooring repairs. Then if you're gonna tear out subfloor looking for pipes or whatever you're talking about, it'll rack up to several thousand quickly. I do 90% flooring jobs now days and half of it is hardwood. I drive nails into subfloor all day long. No issues EVER! And DIY projects are done at your own risk. So if you fuck something up, your gonna have to call a professional to come fix it. I'd probably take the risk if I didn't know what I was doing and didn't want to pay a contractor hundreds or possibly thousands to fix it. That's how all squeaks are fixed, by driving screws into the floor! And most sub flooring is already nailed with 16p ring shank nails. So plumbers drill several inches below that in the joist.
@@jmccormick1490 .....Well sorry, but I am a flooring contractor, and your comment makes you look as professional as a new born baby on a building site!..........That product should NEVER BE USED!!
@@Laptopdog78 how do you fix squeaks, professional?
So glad this popped up in my suggestions feed. I need to do this.
It's will be helpful
Thanks you very much sir
This is the ultimate guide to how to use the Squeek-no-more
Dont do this unless you you want water everwhere or your electrics tripping out
Would this work on stairs with a carpet runner, if there was a riser to drill into?
Dude! This is amazing, Thank you for this. Never knew this existed. I'm so excited to give this a shot.
Very risky to randomly screw through your floors looking for joists with no idea what is under there! do this often enough and you will eventually hit a pipe or some wiring.
Squeaky floors particularly in older property's are often caused when the floor has been lifted to retro fit new services making it even more likely the area you are screwing into has something there to damage.
As a Carpet fitter of over 44 years, you should never drill through a loop pile carpet as you would snag the loop. It would be far easier to uptake the carpet even if it is a Saxony pile carpet as shown in the vid! Regarding pipes and cables as Phil 65 pointed out! You may be able to use a detector? The Principle demonstrated here will work but take note of the other factors that have been pointed out!
Ive heard of My Pillow Guy, but now weve got Steve Case aka My Carpet Guy!
Great video, thank you.
thank you for sharing this great video. My squeaky floor has been fixed.
I would NEVER take the chance doing this. In so many homes you get so many pipes and wires it's just too risky. And the screw pulls the threads in carpets. But good luck people
Please do not do this ever. You will be sorry! Been there done that and it was a total mess if you hit a pipe!
Ok so don't do this EVER...even if you know there's no pipes?
Very helpful video.. I will be doing this soon
Glad to see all the top comments are expressing concern at randomly firing screws into the floor. You have no idea what is under the floor, there is a very small chance of hitting something but Sod’s law and if you do hit a pipe or cable it will not be pretty.
If you ever have the carpets up or are replacing the floor I would highly recommend lifting some boards and taking the time to trace all the pipes and cables, measure them, find out what they are and note them down on a plan. Also helps if you ever have a plumber or electrician in, if you know where everything is it will save time (and therefore money) and means they won’t have to rip half your house to bits to find what they are looking for.
Playing Battleship on my carpet flooring no thx. I’ll leave it to the professionals.
On exposed joists like those, you just drill one hole from the bottom side next to the stud you want to hit and stick something like a wire hanger up through. Then you have a reference point to go off of and only one "extra" hole in the floor🤷♂️
Smart
Can see this being a way a springing a few leaks, or hitting some cables, you just never know how the work has been done under the floor.
As a heating engineer, I go to many instances where somebody has put a screw directly through a pipe, thats when they have the carpet up too.
Always best to take carpets and floor boards up to make sure first, could save you a hefty charge.
Same problem here same location at my walking closet. Thanks to your video
"No special tools required"
"You will need this «no squeak kit»"
I see what you mean. I meant "no special power tools", but it is confusing. I edited that sentence out and the change should show in CZcams within a couple of hours. Thanks for pointing that out.
@@LRN2DIY It was just a minor detail I found funny, I didn't mean to make you have all that work 😅
Btw, I didn't even know it was possible to make those kinds of edits after a video was published! Thanks for teaching me!
Yeah, the CZcams editor has gotten better over the years. Nice to have the option, though I noticed it’s still not processed! Hopefully soon. 😬
Don’t be lazy. Pull the carpet up, pull the pad up. Once subfloor is exposed remove the squeaky nails first, then drill pilot holes (to avoid spliting/splintering) through subfloor following the nail lines. Adjust if necessary since contractors are lazy and miss the joist. Once ready, fill hole with wood glue and screw down. Wipe excess glue, and repeat throughout room. Once all are done, replace the pad, restaple it, and roll the carpet back down. FYI, its easiest to do one side of the room at a time (rolling the carpet and pad out of the way)
This. And use 2.5" #9 GRK star drive construction screws with an impact driver. It'll take a while but worth doing right.
@@robfreeman5783 you don't necessarily need a screw that long in this case, it's not a joist he's drilling into, it's a wood truss( the top is only 1.5 inches)
Any relation to Bob Halberstadt? Michigan? lol you've got quite a distinctive name, idk how numerous you halberstadts are XD
oh yeah, sounds super easy - why not just rip up the carpet
do you know how internet works@@friendlyfire01
Great video thanks ... my house is driving me crazy lol
This kit works pretty good! Used it twice
Don’t do it a third time, your luck might run out..
Pretty cool! Thanks for the detailed demonstration! Makes it very simple to follow!
Makes it very simple on how to ruin your house - electric, gas & water ?
What about electric cables and water pipes?
At least this will keep us plumbers in work😂
Helpful video!!
Use some powerful magnets to identify the exact location..
As a person that's been fitting carpets for 20 years, this is honestly the silliest thing I've seen in the last few years...
If you have good carpets the pile will stand an incredibly high chance of catching the screw and will ladder and tear your carpet, and that's BEFORE you go through the floor and possibly hit any number of pipes or wires. DO NOT DO THIS.
Lift your carpet, lift your boards, locate your joists and mark the floor board appropriately to the safe location to screw the board down and do the job properly. Do it properly once and never do it again, don't do things half arsed and end up giving yourself another two jobs to do on top of the damages you will no doubt cause.
OMG I so need to do this
oh yea - definitely doing this
The proper way to do it right is to pull up carpet, hardwood floor and screw directly into subfloor. They used to use nails and would tend to get loose. My father and I did this when I was a teenager. It took a long time, but was well worth it. Im not putting holes into my new carpet. When its time to replace is perfect time to do it
100% this.
Good luck avoiding water pipes. Hit one of those suckers and you defo will need some equipment .....and insurance!! 🙈
That is an awesome solution, we’ll have to try that. FYI, one of the other reasons why floors squeak apart from screws missing the joist, is the wood glue was not applied sufficiently or at all.
I have a couple of those ,the work great.
Nice job
I have to get one of them
Kool beans
Great video, I can vouch for this tool, works great for squeaky steps and can be used on hardwood floors but will need to be wood filled on top
As a carpet installer this makes me cringe lol why why why
Great Tool, Great Video, Great Job. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hi, what do you do if you have carpet over hardwood; which tool do you use?
I love guys like this giving advice like this. They keep professionals in business.
Nicely done, had no idea it was that easy. I already bookmarked that kit in case I need it at me new house. Thank you.
Thank you for this video!
This is awesome! I am buying a kit now! Can this also be used on carpeted stairs??
It should help on stairs too, yes. There’s more going on as far as the structure of stairs but the idea is the same.
@@LRN2DIY Awesome! Thank you for all of your informative videos!
Never do this with a Berber carpet!
Why not? I have berber and a terrible squeek so was looking for a solution. Why would it not work with berber?
@@1122redbird Because Berber is one continuous loop if you put a screw in it you will pull that loop throughout the whole carpet it’s not a plush
@@fmlyman1012 I looked up this tool and it says it comes with a "berber carpet screw example" and then it says you need to tape the screw like the one in the example so it doesn't catch the carpet like you're saying. Check this out, it's the instructions for it: go.rockler.com/tech/Squeeeeek-No-More-Floor-Squeak-Repair-Kit-Instructions.pdf
I'm gonna get a professional though, otherwise with my luck I would either tear it up or hit a pipe or wire and then be looking at a huge problem. Not worth the risk.
@@1122redbird I live in Annapolis Maryland so if you live near there I can help you otherwise I would just get a carpet professional Berber is tricky good luck though
@@fmlyman1012 Thanks I'm too far away or I'd take you up on that, I called a couple of people who say they can fix it but getting them to actually show up and do it is another story. People only want to deal with big jobs right now because construction is going strong so they don't always call back or even answer calls. I bought a condo and its up on the third floor, I'd take a stab at fixing it myself but I have no idea what's below the floor and if I screwed it up it would be a disaster.
Make sure to do it barefooted so when your drill slips you wrap your foot!
Right? When I nod my head, you hit it.........
A lot of squeaky floorboards in older properties have been caused by workmen ( electricians or plumbers ) that have lifted the boards to gain access to pipes or cables and then hammered them back into place using nails, (because it’s quick and easy ) these work loose and you have noisy floors when you walk on them, under carpet boards are best fixed using correct length wood screws when the carpet is lifted , this also lessens the possibility of puncturing or shorting pipes or cables .
How do screws opposed to nails lessen the risk of puncturing a pipe or cable?
Please don’t say anything about correct length as pipes and cables laying into cut joists can be touching the underside of the floor boards.
Seems like this tool works great but there’s definitely a cheaper option. You could basically just use Robinson head screws that counter sink into wood. There’s really no need to buy that special tool although it seems to work great.
You see it in the carpet and it would look awful.
Does this make holes in the carpet? 🤣🤣🤣
Screwing through the carpet?? Surely you would lift the carpet?
Not at all. It drives through then snaps below both the carpet and padding. Like it never happened- except for the new silence.
@@LRN2DIY and a hole in your carpet?
Yes, technically. But if we’re being technical, your whole carpet is a weave, full of holes. The long and short of it is you cannot see, feel or detect where this was done on the carpet.
How neat, I learn something new. Thank you.
Never thought this was a thing. In the Netherlands over here all our floors are concrete and have been for atleast 40 to 50 years now. No squeak, ever.
Houses in Europe are built much better than here in America. American houses are built fast but they are just hollow squeeky doghouses
huh, is that because your house has to be an air raid shelter too?
@@skamravec that's because american houses don''t have to withstand multiple bombing runs
I needed this 10 years ago when my daughter was a newborn. Our house was older and all of our floors/stairs creaked one way or another & it was just something that we didn’t even worry about until she came home.
We had tape marks anywhere that the floor really made noise so we avoided it. Sometimes though (especially doing long reach steps) we would hit new squeaks….and pausing when your almost in a split, a quarter of the way out the door trying to bring the other leg to meet up with the rest of your body…..ow.
I liked to think that I was Vincent Cassel in Oceans 12 maneuvering his way through the lasers At the museum to steal the faberge egg.
I’d I had this though….I would have been saved from many pulled muscles and loss of sleep 😂
I found it easier to just train the kids to be heavy sleepers. My youngest boy once slept through a fireworks show with a brass band playing.
This is really helpful video 👍. They way you explained is really going to help someone who wants to get rid of squick without spending money on contractors.
Awesome! Just watch out for Pex pipe and Romex wires!
When he says he we might have something, the rocket mortgage commercial with Tracy Morgan comes to mind. 🤣🤣
Thank god theres alot of builders and experienced professionals in the comments to call this DIY hack out.. Just from helping my dad way back in high school build our house I could have told you this is not the right way to go about fixing a squeaky floor.
Sorry my friend but this is utterly ridiculous! It's only a matter of time before you screw through a central heating pipe or electric cable. I don't know everything about flooring but I've been doing the job for 43 years so I know a thing or two. This is very dangerous!
Exactly…………….can’t believe how many people think that this is a brilliant idea……………someone is going to get hurt doing this or worse have a fatal electrical shock PS been an electrician since mid 70s
Nice video. This would work fine with a low pile office carpet too?
You just earned a sub.
Thank you good sir!