Broken Floorboards Under Carpet

How to fix plywood flooring that has popped up under the carpet.

Broken floorboards under carpet.

To fix a squeaky carpeted floor you might have to try a few times until you get the squeak to stop. If floorboards are loose there may be pipes gas or water or elect. The carpet s a cheap probably underlay backed one and i was wondering if i could cut round the broken area remove cut out the broken floorboards replace with plywood then glue the cut piece of carpet back in place. A plywood subfloor often squeaks when it separates from the joists but it doesn t have to make any noise at all to give you a.

This can cause subfloor nails to pop loose and the subfloor. Next the flooring expert will carefully knock out the rotten subfloor and use a circular saw to clean up the edges. Fixing a squeaky floor that s carpeted can be challenging. There can be water under engineered wood floor as well as water under wood laminate flooring.

When the damage to a board is severe enough to cause it crack chip or splinter the repair isn t as easy. Floors get squeaky when wood dries out either finished wood or a wooden subfloor. Whereas you can usually repair a crack by spreading glue. Never nail or screw down loose floorboards without checking what s underneath them first.

I recently dropped something heavy and it looks to have broken a couple of floorboards. Water leaks can happen under various types of flooring. Dealing with broken floorboards. Over 10 years ago we had a plumber in who removed all of the upstairs floorboards to fit new pipes he broke a substantial amount and the rest either were not returned as they came out or in some cases there are open gaps he cut away sections of joists and now there is nothing underneath to reattach.

I ve now got a 1 foot square dip in the carpet.