Wood floors creak with every step. Is this normal?
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Anonymous
| I'm renting a house where every single step makes the wood floors creak. Stairs, main level, upstairs are all creaky. The house was built around 1940, and I'm wondering if this is normal. I don't notice the same thing at friends' similarly-aged houses in the neighborhood, but maybe theirs do the same and I'm just not noticing. Is such all-over creaking normal? Is there a fix? |
Anonymous
| Normal |
Anonymous
| Normal for older houses and not much you can do to fix it that is reasonably priced. |
Anonymous
| Normal. One of the reasons I hate wood floors. |
Anonymous
| If you haven't already, put some rugs down. You'll won't notice the squeaking as much. Maybe your neighbors have different subfloors? |
Anonymous
| My 1969 house does this and it drives me insane. It's on the list of non-negotiables whenever we look for our next house. |
Anonymous
| My 1918 house does this too. We've gotten used to it. |
Anonymous
| Yes, tear it down |
Anonymous
| I learned in Kyoto that royalty used squeaking floors to detect intruders so think of it as a built in alarm system. |
Anonymous
| Also good luck to the naive teenager who tries to sneak out/in during the night! |
Anonymous
| Part of what I love about older homes. We have lots of area rugs, so don't notice it as much. |
Anonymous
this was one of my non-negotiables also when we were searching for our house, but then quickly realized that the only way to get non squeaky floors is in a newer house which was out of our price range. So in the end I settled for an older home with squeaky floors..... Area rugs really do help a lot! |
Anonymous
| We have em. Doesn't bother me at all. |
Anonymous
Me either, but they drive my husband crazy. |
Anonymous
+1 |