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Replacing hardwood floor in 100 year old house with no subfloor

February 11, 2022, 1:35 pm

This is a 100-year-old, single family house in Washington, D.C. The floors are aged and worst of all terribly squeaky. The main issue we are trying to solve is to not have the floors squeak.Unless we...

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Answer by gnicko for Replacing hardwood floor in 100 year old house with no...

February 10, 2022, 5:37 pm

The squeaking comes from vibrations created when the floorboards and joists rub against each other when weight pushes down on them.There's a chance that replacing the floor with a new one "in-kind"...

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Answer by Ecnerwal for Replacing hardwood floor in 100 year old house with no...

February 10, 2022, 5:29 pm

Considering the work and expense involved in replacement, I'd be looking hard at trying anything possible for squeak remediation. What comes to mind is injecting epoxy (or perhaps something else?) to...

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Answer by Jack for Replacing hardwood floor in 100 year old house with no...

February 10, 2022, 10:02 pm

I will repeat some answers that you already have but, it is all part of my answers that will have different nuances.To give my summary on the idea of floor replacement, and using the second picture in...

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Answer by Daniel Wilson for Replacing hardwood floor in 100 year old house...

February 11, 2022, 1:35 pm

Floors squeak when wood rubs against wood.Those are beautiful floors. And the boards are probably nice and strong. If you do pull the boards up, what about putting them right back down, but with...

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