Calling all chippies (Creaking floors)

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Posted this on another DIY forum but throught i'd post here too just in case :)

I have a spare room in our house which creaks like hell, i thought ok lets get the boards up and have a nosey then glue back down and use screws instead of nails.
Took me best part of 4 hours to get all the bloody nails out and 2 quite nasty cuts later theyre all out :)

However i cannot get the two T&G chipboards to come free, video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h3eqG3Ilzs
Can anyone suggest anything please.? Im tempted to just rip them up and tidy the edges afterwards then replace the chip boards with compressed ones ??

Thoughts please.
 
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just rip them up, when your putting boards back down just screw them. If you think you had a hard time lifting the nails, just think of the problems if you glue them down.
 
Hmm looking at the first 30 secs of that video, my
Phone won't load up the rest, I'd say those boards are probably screwed down/nailed down under the skirting board as well. Will involve ripping the carpet grip of and the skirting, then screwing the boards down at the edges as well.
 
What I'd do first would be to put plenty of screws in it before you pull it up, I think that should fix it. If it doesn't then take out the screws, pull it up and put something new down. Don't be gluing it though, you don't need to and it's easier to lift if you ever need access to wiring/pipes.
 
Yeah not sure why you bothered with all the hassle of taking all the nails out, surely going nutts with a big box of good screws and drill would have massively improved the problem if not solved it completely !?!
 
J-FRO said:
Hmm looking at the first 30 secs of that video, my
Phone won't load up the rest, I'd say those boards are probably screwed down/nailed down under the skirting board as well. Will involve ripping the carpet grip of and the skirting, then screwing the boards down at the edges as well.
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Thanks for looking the two centre boards are T&G'd to the wood by the skirting boards however they too will need some screws in as well.

I've brought some thin wedges to go under the wall incase its the wall moving.
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Yeah not sure why you bothered with all the hassle of taking all the nails out, surely going nutts with a big box of good screws and drill would have massively improved the problem if not solved it completely !?!
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Bad idea if you aren't 100% sure where the water pipes are.

Learned that when i went around making the floorboards quiet for the carpet that was being laid the following day....
 
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