Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have em. Doesn't bother me at all.

Me either, but they drive my husband crazy.

+1

Anonymous wrote:We have em. Doesn't bother me at all.

Me either, but they drive my husband crazy.

We have em. Doesn't bother me at all.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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!

Part of what I love about older homes. We have lots of area rugs, so don't notice it as much.

Also good luck to the naive teenager who tries to sneak out/in during the night!

I learned in Kyoto that royalty used squeaking floors to detect intruders so think of it as a built in alarm system.

Yes, tear it down

My 1918 house does this too. We've gotten used to it.

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.

If you haven't already, put some rugs down. You'll won't notice the squeaking as much. Maybe your neighbors have different subfloors?

Normal. One of the reasons I hate wood floors.

Normal for older houses and not much you can do to fix it that is reasonably priced.

Normal

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?