What is the best way to stop creaks in hardwood flooring before refinishing?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at
2:54 pm
I thought of using flooring nails and recessing them and filling in over heads, but I really want something very permanent- buy drugs on line maybe very thin screws?
If you can get to the floor from underneath, then driving screws from the bottom up would be preferable.
If not, then the simplest way is, as you said, drive nails from above. You can drive screws but the large head would require plugging the recessed hole with a wood dowel (to match your floor species), sanded down and finished to match the floor. You can use wood filler instead of a plug and get away with it, but it’s ugly.