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title: "Flooring"
url: https://our-gaff.com/strand-flooring
description: "Flooring at Our Gaff. Squeaks, lifted boards, thresholds and the noises a floor makes."
published: 2026-09-12
updated: 2026-09-12
---

# Flooring

Published 2026-09-12

STRAND PROFILE

Squeaks, lifted boards, thresholds and the noises a floor makes.

Running order

- [Quiet a squeaking floorboard](https://our-gaff.com/guide-quiet-a-squeaking-floorboard)HALLWAY AND STAIRS — stage 1 of 5

Floors talk. A squeak is a moving part rubbing against a fixed one, and the whole of this strand is about working out which two parts those are before reaching for a screw.

Most of the time the answer is a board that has worked loose from the joist beneath it, and the fix is one screw in the right place. Sometimes it is a board rubbing its neighbour along the tongue, and a screw makes it worse. Telling those two cases apart is half of the work and all of the skill.

The guides in this strand keep a firm line about what sits underneath a floor. Pipes and cables run between joists as a matter of course, and nothing in these pages asks you to drive a fixing anywhere you have not first established what is behind it.

Open the [weekend schedule](https://our-gaff.com/schedule) to see how a strand of this kind is paced across two days, or the [room directory](https://our-gaff.com/rooms) to find the same guides by room.