Engineered Floating Floor Squeaking

All wood floors make noises or eventually will.

Engineered floating floor squeaking.

Instead the top most layer hovers over a thin layer of interlocking tongue and groove joints. At this point the floor is locked in hitting the walls or door jambs around the perimeter. Unlike traditional wood flooring floating wood flooring is not directly attached to sub flooring like concrete. A product that is hygroscopic and reacts to its ever changing environment will likely move around throughout its service life and develop some sort of squeak crackle or pop.

You ll have several options to stop it. Oftentimes the squeaks and creaks you hear are caused by the floorboards rubbing against nails or the floorboards. Finding the squeak can be difficult but if the squeaking floor is open from below you re in luck. Reset the boards with screws not nails and do it from above or below the floor.

Reset lifting floorboards if your engineered or solid hardwood floor is squeaking because some of the boards are lifting you ll usually be able to feel play in the floor when you walk over the loose boards. Tighten the nut with a wrench until the subfloor is pulled down snug against the floor joist. Fixing squeaky floating wood flooring is much different than fixing squeaks in normal wood flooring. This will give a far more stable sub floor ready for a floating engineered floor to be installed.

Ok so nice flat floor boards good quality underlay we were ready to get cracking. It wasn t the strongest looking system to start with. If the cause of the squeaking is a result of hardwood floors rubbing against the plywood subfloor underneath you can drive a short wood screw up through the bottom of the subfloor and into the. This is usually somewhat temporary.

If your glued edge floating floor is making noise one potential cause is that due to moisture the floor has expanded the maximum it can based on the expansion gap left during installation. As the wickes engineered floor had been taken up three times i doubted the integrity of the locking mechanism. Driving short screws through the bottom of the subfloor through the bottom of the finished floor can alleviate the noise. This may sound a little hokey but talcum powder graphite and wd 40 are all solutions that have helped squeaking floors.

It is part of living with a natural organic product. One nwfa certified inspector swears by wd 40 as a solution.