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Our house is floored throughout with wide pine flooring. In the winter it squeaks. Actually, when we walk on certain areas, the sound is more of a popping sound. Does anyone have advise on how to remedy the problem. It is fine during warmer weather.
Just from my experience with wood floors, and living in an ocean environment, the floors at my place "creek and pop" more in the damp winter. I've been told this is because a.) they are from the 20's and b.) because they absorb moisture in the winter and swell up..which makes them rub against one another because they are "tight"...
Like yours, it stops when the weather is warmer and dryer.
I don't know how your flooring was originally laid, or what is under it. I have old hardwood floors which are laid OVER the sub-flooring.
Even though I have carpet over them, they continue to squeak and it is annoying...The guy who installed the carpeting came back, lifted the carpet and padding and sprinkled baby powder liberally on the worst sections, then swept it back and forth numerous times to get it in the joints. That worked very well and reduced the problem by about 85 %.
In another room, it didn't solve anything. I had to crawl under the house and put deck screws up through the sub-flooring as some of the boards were loose because the nails had rusted and the boards were shifting. This solved the problem immediately in that area.
