Question about a boring topic.

[spongebob]

I used regular 3/4 plywood. The hose is 17 feet wide and has 2X4's going up the sides of the house in a balloon framing on the outside walls from first floor to second floor roof. The floors are 2X12 along the whole span of the 17 width or microlam (sp?) spanning across where needed. Everything else is NOT a load bearing wall. It's an open floor plan.

my main question though is, can you get under your house and see the subfloor, meaning is it on peers and beams? can you crawl under it and see the floor joices?

*edited* make not of my edit in bold.

 

[gonelifting]

my main question though is, can you get under your house and see the subfloor, meaning is it on beams? can you crawl under it and see the floor joices?

It's all covered up. I'm referring to the second floor (first floor ceiling). It is not on any load bearing beams. I did see the subfloor before I sheetrocked the ceiling. (I installed it) The plywood is on top of 2X12's spaced 16 inches apart along the whole length of the house. It's all new wood/new construction except for the outside walls of the house.


***edit.. No peers (piers)? It's spans all the way across the 17 feet.

 

[spongebob]

It's all covered up. I'm referring to the second floor (first floor ceiling). It is not on any load bearing beams. I did see the subfloor before I sheetrocked the ceiling. (I installed it) The plywood is on top of 2X12's spaced 16 inches apart along the whole length of the house. It's all new wood/new construction except for the outside walls of the house.


***edit.. No peers (piers)? It's spans all the way across the 17 feet.

ok i thought we were dealing with the bottom level.

but the only thing i can think of is that the glue you used may have not been moisture resistant and therefore came lose in spots. ive seen that before but most likely not your case.

i had some hardwood floor glued down and the asshole used the wrong glue. well it never really fully cures and moisture causes problems with it.

good luck fellow do-it-yourselfer.

 

[gonelifting]

Big thanks!!! Go to bed now.

 

[Chambewy20]

Is it a newer house, it's most likely due to the nails or nails already there that missed the floor joyces.

I have an older house with wood floors and my daugter loves it when i bounce up and down in the living room and make the basement door rattle, she's two and a half so we have about the same mentality.

Squeek on Squeeker!!!

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

3x4 plywood on 2x12's and it still squeaks?

Glue's fucked up.

 

[stilleto]

or, its the joists that are squeeking, not the subfloor.
gonelifting, is it just in one spot or along a line?

 

[gonelifting]

or, its the joists that are squeeking, not the subfloor.
gonelifting, is it just in one spot or along a line?

It's in certain spots of the whole floor. It SEEMS to be at the joints or corners of the wplywood, not sure. At night, we avoid "the spot" in the bedroom hallway as to not wake the child.

Like i said above, I may have to take out the carpet and rescrew it but I'd hate to do all that work if it won't help. There are those screws I've heard about that break off at the top and go into the carpet... BUT? I've only heard of them and not seen them in action on a thick carpet. Worse things could happen, I guess. thanks.


btw I used the contractor glue that comes in the tubes for a caulking gun. The brown colored type glue for wood. From Home Depot. ONE Tube per 4X8 piece JUST to avoid this very problem.

 

[gonelifting]

http://www.improvementscatalog.com/home/improvements/27604-Squeeeeek-No-More-Kit.html


Here too, in case anyone had this subscribed.

 

[stilleto]

was i right about it being the joists and not the subfloor?