Very awkward at the best of times, not least with a small baby - whereas I was able to do it discretly. I'm sure some people would say that we should have got Crest round again and again to resolve, but the problem was that they spent several days here getting the floor up and down again and not resolving it. I must say that Crest's people's bit of cutting up the boards and putting the braces in so that they can go back down has made it possible for me to do my work. However, this has been absolutely fine and is quite a useful skill to have picked up (B&Q sell a carpet stretcher for £23 which I bought - needed in some places but well worth having). I'm not an expert and - initially - I was worried about getting the carpet up and refitted. No problem - I'll just take that bit of carpet up tomorrow morning and hopefully resolve. This was, like the others, "fixed" by Crest's people some weeks back but has returned - maybe as a result of my work on the otehr bits. You don't win them all though, as I noticed this evening that one creak has come back to a different location in the bedroom. Again carpet refitted and absolute silence. On this occassion it wasn't the same problem, but a nail rubbing against the metal joist hanger (banged in, packed with foam, talcum powdered up. Sufficiently buoyed by this yesterday afternoon I spent another hour lifting the landing carpet and doing a similar job. Ī couple of weeks later and - much to my delight - the noise has NOT returned. Needless to say I felt pretty smart, so put a thin wedge of plastic in here and in two similar locations which were also exposed with the board up before screwing down and - for good measure - sprinkly more talcum power (our 2 month old was given several bottles of this but we were advised not to use it, so good to see it finding a use!). After a few attempts I shoved my flat head (screwdriver) between the metal joist hanger and the joist board itself. So I started experimenting by shoving a screwdriver into various gaps, etc. Interestingly the creak was still apparent despite the board being removed. So, I put aside a couple of hours one morning to take up the carpet again and lift the board in the offending area - I was determined to resovle the problem.Īnyway, this I did and started walkin around on the exposed joists. What's been happening then? Well - following on from when I said I'd put powder down between the boards it basically didn't make any discernable difference. Sorry I haven't come back to this thread more quickly. Which Crest development do you live at? We're at Ingress Park in Kent.
I mentioned the talc trick but he was of the opinion that the noise isn't between the boards, it's actually the aforementioned gap underneath them. The chap who's been doing the work says that quite a few of the new houses on our development have had this sort of problem. So, they came back on Friday and did some more packing in a different area (this time they haven't fully re-fitted the carpet - they're coming back next week to see if there has been any recurrence before doing so). The landing is fine but, since then, a creak has returned to one area of the bedroom.
They packed these with thin soft wood and put the main bedroom and landing back together. Over the course of the next couple of days they cut up some of the floor boards and identified that there were some small gaps between the joists and the boards in some areas (suggested as due to the settling / moving process).
We moved into our home new new (if you know what I mean - we're the first owners) only seven months back.Ĭrest Nicholson's sub contractor came and lifted the carpets and tried putting in some screws but that didn't actually help. I'm interested to know how you have got one with Crest, or how you do get on.
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