Squeaking is a faithful companion of parquet, whose performance characteristics have decreased over time.
Squeaking can be caused by various reasons:
- parquet drying out due to low humidity in the room;
- physical damage to the parquet (breakage of tongue and groove joints, splitting of individual planks, etc.);
- parquet planks peeling off from the base;
- displacement of the parquet base relative to the floor joists.
If the floor not only creaks, but significantly bends under your feet, most likely the joists are damaged or the fastenings of the parquet base are broken. In this situation, you cannot avoid a comprehensive repair, which will affect both the subfloor and the finished floor (and not just the parquet). If the appearance of a squeak is not associated with serious damage, and if the parquet has not had time to peel off from the base, then it makes sense to try to fix the problem in one of the ways described below.