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Made good process this weekend thanks to some help from my dad.

 

@HomerTaco all the wood so far is from home depot!

 

Got the best deal from Home Depot when I ordered the lumber package for my house. It was all kiln dried Douglas Fir too. It was hard on my drywall guns though, stuff is hard!

 

Stihl. I'm not sure how much trimming you do, but I would consider a commercial Stihl trimmer. Thats what I did and I've had mine for over 10 years I believe.

 

Another vote for Stihl. Ran them commercially for about 6 years and never had a failure. Still use one of my original trimmers from 2002 at my house weekly.

 

I got the one with a brush cutter blade, it does good with brush up to about 3/4". The weed eater part works great too.

 

Looking for ideas on how to fix subfloor squeaking. As I've posted on here, we are currently having wood floors installed. In our lower level (crawl space accessible), I have about a 10x10 area that is very squeaky even after the new floors are in. I did the best I could prepping the subfloor before the floor guys got there, then they prepped it, then they have also driven trim screws through the floors after install to try and quiet this area up, but it’s still super noisy. I am pretty confident that everything from the top side is as solid as could be at this point. So, I’m going to try to attack this from below and wanted to get ideas from people that have dealt with this before. My current plan is to run 2x10 blocking across the joists (16” on center, but long spans) to see if that helps some deflection, and then run construction adhesive along every joist/subfloor seam to try and limit any movement from below. At this point, that seems to be all I can do, because I know the subfloors are more than adequately screwed down into the joists from above. Does this sound like a good starting point? Anyone else have any other suggestions? The new floors look amazing and the guys are doing a great job, but this is all I can focus on and it’s taking away from my satisfaction with the new floor.

 

My other thought besides the blocking would be to put some pocket screws from the joists into the subfloor.

 

These might help
http://www.essentialhardware.com/si...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CIfenseAmNQCFRGBswodQT8DnA
Hopefully your subfloor is glued to the joists

 

Another +1 on Stihl. I have the FS 56 RC-E and have never had an issue. There is not another thing more frustrating than needing to fix your weedeater before using it.

 

Looked into bridging, but everything I read says blocking is stronger. But a good option possibly. Also, my subfloors are glued and nailed. I just wonder if some of the glue is failing a little. Guess we will give it a go and see what happens.

 

Stihl, I wont buy any other brand of equipment.

 

i'm no professional carpenter here but if you know the thickness of all of the floor material, including the subfloor and you have access underneath, couldn't you just put deck screws in from below? Would pull the hardwood, subfloor and everything in between together and screws wouldn't back out on ya......(if your subfloor is solid)

 

Ever needed a condom and not had one?

 

The issue isn't the floor to subfloor, it's the subfloor to joist. It made the noise before the new floors were installed and after, and they're nailed in like crazy, so I know the floors are solid. I just have to find what's causing the subfloor to joist noise.

 

No matter what you get it's nice to have the whole lineup like blower, wacker, chainsaw, whatever and only have to use one jug of pre-mix. I got one jug for my mower of straight gas and one jug of 50:1 mix for all my Sthil stuff. Makes life simple.

 

Sister 2x4's onto your joists , up against the subfloor , put PL Premium on the upper side and the side that will contact the joist prior to installation , screw or nail in place

 

Check that there are no shiners , ie nails or screws that were driven through the subfloor into the joists originally but skimmed off the edge of the joist , the subfloor moving up and down on the fastener shank can cause a squeak , pull them through the bottom if possible

 

It can be several different issues. I have successfully used Jack Posts (sometimes called foundation jacks) and blocks to provide a slight lift/pressure to the bottom of a floor joist in an older building of mine (1920s house). I ran them roughly on 4' centers and added blocking in areas that had greater than 10' span between the original foundation's load points.