How do you fix a squeaky floor?

by Pam Gresenz Brandt

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The bathroom floor squeaks/creaks no matter where you step. What can be done to fix this?

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Ken Erickson on Jan 18, 2019

It depends on your floor type, and you didn't explain what you have. Hardwood sometimes can have baby powder sprinkled into cracks. Some floors need more screws driven into floor joists. Support from below the floor may need to be beefed up.

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Cheryl A on Jan 18, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEP3pzLhrW4

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Kelly-n-Tony on Jan 20, 2019

baby powder for wood squeaky floors

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- Kelli L. Milligan on Jan 21, 2019
  
  Not much help for tile. But good to know and smells good.
  
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Joy30150932 on Jan 21, 2019

If you can underneath the floor the best way is to use screws to tighten up the areas you are having problems with. Exposed floor joists can be made sturdier by adding supporting braces criss-crossed from one joist to the other. If that is not possible then nailing fine finishing nails into the floor surface into the wood base below will help but may be noticeable.

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