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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
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Shawn
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Do your stairs squeak?
If you have a 2 story house, do the stairs squeak from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor? Basement stairs don't count, since they aren't normally built to the same standards as the living space stairs.
Ours used to squeak really badly, so when I refinished them, I glued all the joints, and now there is basically no noise at all. 
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Posted 1/18/10 7:27 AM  |
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MrsM-6-7-08
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Member since 8/06 4249 total posts
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Nicole
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
nope no squeaking, its a brand new staircase
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| Posted 1/18/10 8:03 AM |
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
theres one step in my parents house that squeeks. my mom says she likes it bc she knows when we got in for the night. 
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| Posted 1/18/10 10:26 AM |
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CoachC
LIF Infant
Member since 8/08 275 total posts
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Kerri
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
My house was built in 1925, everything squeaks. 
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| Posted 1/18/10 11:39 AM |
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JldDolphin
Member since 1/07 6929 total posts
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Jen
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Posted by GoldenRod
If you have a 2 story house, do the stairs squeak from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor? Basement stairs don't count, since they aren't normally built to the same standards as the living space stairs.
Ours used to squeak really badly, so when I refinished them, I glued all the joints, and now there is basically no noise at all.
Shawn, how did you fix them. I would love to fix our squeaks. Thanks.
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| Posted 1/18/10 11:43 AM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
Member since 11/06 26792 total posts
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Shawn
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Posted by JldDolphin
Posted by GoldenRod
If you have a 2 story house, do the stairs squeak from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor? Basement stairs don't count, since they aren't normally built to the same standards as the living space stairs.
Ours used to squeak really badly, so when I refinished them, I glued all the joints, and now there is basically no noise at all.
Shawn, how did you fix them. I would love to fix our squeaks. Thanks.
I ran a bead of "Gorilla Glue" along every seam. Where the riser meets the tread, where the tread meets the riser, where everything touches the wood on the sides. On the steps where the walls are drywall, I used caulk. After it dried, I took a Dremel and sanded everything smooth.
The glue expands, filling in the tiny space between the boards, and connects everything together, so it's like one huge piece of wood, instead of dozens of individual ones rubbing against each other.
You can also go from underneath and use glue and/or screws, but I wanted to try the easier method first. Underneath means I would have needed to take out drywall on the basement stairs ceiling, work on the basement stairs, etc.
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| Posted 1/18/10 1:00 PM |
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JldDolphin
Member since 1/07 6929 total posts
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Jen
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Thanks Shawn. We will have to try that.
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| Posted 1/18/10 3:10 PM |
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Jenn627
Laaaaaaaambert!
Member since 5/08 9818 total posts
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Jenn
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Posted by MrsM-6-7-08
nope no squeaking, its a brand new staircase
ditto. However - my bedroom floor squeaks - it's awful!
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| Posted 1/18/10 3:14 PM |
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Cheeks24
Living a dream
Member since 1/08 8589 total posts
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Cheeks
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Nope! Ours has thick carpeting over them 
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| Posted 1/18/10 3:35 PM |
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neener1211
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Member since 4/07 22952 total posts
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J
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
My DH just re-did all of our stair treads by covering them with basically a cap. He glued them down, and nailed them-they still squeak slightly. But that is the wood against wood. Much better than originally, but I wish there was no squeak.
Talk to me again in 15 years when my kids are coming home late, or trying to leave...I'll love the squeaky stairs. 
edited for spelling
Message edited 1/18/2010 3:38:34 PM.
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| Posted 1/18/10 3:37 PM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
Member since 11/06 26792 total posts
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Shawn
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Posted by Mici C
Nope! Ours has thick carpeting over them
Before I fixed the squeak, they had carpeting. Carpeting does very little to stop squeaking. If the underlying wood is rubbing against itself the wrong way, it doesn't matter what's on top of it. I just dealt with the squeaks with the carpet because I didn't feel like taking the carpet off the fix it before.
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| Posted 1/18/10 3:58 PM |
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stickydust
Now a mommy of 2!!!
Member since 4/06 3164 total posts
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Nope. Our stairs our original to the house - built in 1890. They are REALLY thick wide planks (I think they are beautiful) and they do not squeek at all - very solid!
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| Posted 1/18/10 4:42 PM |
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danielleandscott
My new 71 Super Beetle
Member since 5/05 13476 total posts
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Scott
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
The original Levitt stairs did squeek, but the new ones do not
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| Posted 1/18/10 10:37 PM |
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freckles
Love My Little Man!
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Ours does...the house was built in '47.
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| Posted 1/19/10 3:37 PM |
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evenedan
Need a little sunshine
Member since 9/05 3843 total posts
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D
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Re: Do your stairs squeak?
Our house was built in 1931 and forget squeak, our stairs SCREAM! It's so annoying!!
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| Posted 1/19/10 4:40 PM |
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