Squeaky Hardwood Floor Repair Kit - Squeeek No More - Works on Hardwood and Vinyl Floor and Stairs

WIthin 15 minutes of opening the package the squeaking in a problematic area of my hardwood floors was fixed. By fixed I mean 95-98% quieter. It's quieter than other parts of the floor that I consider mostly quiet.I watched several videos on Youtube the night before the kit arrived and that helped quite a bit. I basically knew exactly what do and what to look for before I started. Highly recommend you do the same. Also recommend using a paperclip to test your initial small holes hits the joist. I did not have a paperclip but got by with a toothpick for testing. Hit the joist on my second attempt - measured 16" from there and hit paydirt again with another joist. 3 screws and that puppy was fixed!

Incredible. 96 year old house with original hardwood floors, squeaking could be heard throughout the whole home. This product reduced the sounds of the squeaking by about 80%. I've been trying to solve this issue for ages, had two different flooring contractors in who said the only option was to lay down new floors and tear up the old, $10k job right there. $20 bucks on this product and nearly perfect. Whoever invented this is a genius, hats off.Easy install as long as you have a decent drill and 1/8" bit. Get some wood putty from the hardware store and you'll be good to go in 20 minutes.

We used this on the floor of my office in a 100 year old home.The floors here are totally messed up, sagging, uneven. I'm avoiding having to take time off work and spend the money to have the floors replaced, so we tried this. It eliminated most of the unbearable squeaking noises, especially one that stretched across a large area.The worst of the squeak is unfortunately where my computer desk chair must go, so it sees a lot of action. After about a year, I started noticing some creaking and popping noises, and now, the squeak is back.Instead of spending $1000+ on repairing the floors, I'm going to buy this 20 some dollar kit again, cuz 10 minutes to install, and 20 bucks a year aint bad.

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This product is amazing! My house has a 115-year-old staircase whose squeaks are loud enough to wake the dead. I was researching options online, and even contemplating ripping all the basement drywall off to get at the stairs from underneath, when I found this product. While it is designed for floors (I think) it works just as well for stairs. The key is to get the nails into the stringers (the wood that supports the entire staircase). For each step, I put one nail in each side of the stringer, and then also one nail into the riser on the front of the stair in the center of the step. This worked really well, and solved 90-95% of the stair's squeaks! It's an old staircase so it won't ever be perfectly silent, but it's a HUGE improvement. I did end up with two nails that didn't get far enough in before they broke, and that was a bit of a hassle to fix, but since it stopped my stairs from squeaking, I'm not too upset. I used a Dremel cutting bit to remove the excess screw from the stairs and then puttied over the hole. The screws are pretty neat in how they work and I was impressed at how small the hole left behind was (see photo)! You can see the puttied holes from the nail holes, but my stairs are far from perfect already given their age, so it's fine with me. If you put more effort than I did into finding an exact stain color match, I bet you could just about completely hide all evidence of the nail holes.Suggestions:-Use a smaller bit than 1/8" - I used the next size down-Use the "soft wood" method - this gives you more control over when the screw breaks so you have less chance of it breaking early and ending up with the nail sticking out of the floor-When you pre-drill the pilot hole, make sure you are actually drilling into the stringer/joist. If you aren't, then the screw isn't going to do anything to fix the squeaks. It needs to grab onto the stringer/joist in order to tighten the floor. I could actually hear my staircase "creaking" as the screw did its work tightening everything up.-You'll need wood putty and a stain/paint color to touch up the floor with after

Very excited for this product because of old house with old wood floor. Screws do not snap off when reaching the surface of the guide. Tried two different drills and eventually got one to snap off with several hammer blows. Floor in worse shape than before.