Creaking floors - replace chipboard with floorboards?

NibblyPig

tony3619 said:

How did the guy remove the floorboards? They look like they are nailed down and would be a massive pain to uplift. I have a new build which also suffers creaky floors (not nearly as bad yet) so this is worth knowing.

Afraid I don't know, I wasn't watching them do that part, it was T&G and somehow they got them up and then did a lot of screwing and gluing and stuff and now it's fine.

phatbear

tony3619 said:

NibblyPig said:

If anyone wanted a follow up to this I had a guy come in and he lifted, inspected, glued & screwed these down and possibly did some other bits and now they're 98% less creaky. Fixed my squeaky stairs as well. Cost me a bit, but it's done now. Will see how it is after new flooring is put in.

Other rooms still have some movement walking on them, but not in a squeaky way, maybe that's just the nature of them. Just need people to stop STOMPING EVERYWHERE. I walk with the grace of a cat but other people seem unaware of their clomp clomp clomp.

How did the guy remove the floorboards? They look like they are nailed down and would be a massive pain to uplift. I have a new build which also suffers creaky floors (not nearly as bad yet) so this is worth knowing. 

Zooming in on the pics they look like philips screw heads to me.

if they are nailed down a way of getting them up is to cut around the nail and with a hole cutter and use a cats paw to hoik them up.