We have a old home in the country, built maybe around 1900, it is being supported with wood stumps from trees, we need to have it leveled, concrete supports and a lot of wood replaced under the floor. One of the vendors said he would put in shaker seals.
Can you tell me what that is, I have tried to google it and could find nothing about them. He said something about it would make the floor quiter and not as shakey?
Tom: You’ll find out where the squeaks are, and I’m sure you know the areas that are squeaking. And then have to secure it tight so it doesn’t move. Now, that could be a lot of different ways. If they’re replacing parts of the floor and they were putting new floor in, gluing helps especially with a sub floor before you put your hardwoods down. Any time you put wood-on-wood you put rosin paper in between.
Sometimes if the floor is already there what you can do, and they do this a lot up North Charlie where they have basements but we don’t do it much here because we can’t get underneath there, is they take angle irons up underneath-
Charlie: Ooh.
Tom: -where the joists and the wood come together, and they’ll bolt and screw angle irons, not big heavy ones, but just enough to secure it on all those runs there if there’s got a really noisy area. But that’s done a lot in basements.
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