Squeaky floor repair in Westboro

Both. In the Westboro census tract, 49.5 per cent of dwellings were built before 1961 and 25.7 per cent between 2001 and 2021, much of it condominium and infill development. With that much old and new stock side by side, we date the building rather than the postcode.

In a smaller middle layer. In the Westboro tract, 49.5 per cent of dwellings predate 1961 and 63.8 per cent predate 1981, so roughly one in seven was built between 1961 and 1980. A house from those years typically has plywood subfloor nailed to the joists. It squeaks for the same basic reason as the older houses, a loose nailed connection, but the fix is to draw the plywood sheet back down to the joist rather than to refasten individual boards.

To the late 1800s. The post office took the name Westboro in 1899, and Westboro was a police village from 1903 until it joined Ottawa in 1949. Houses from those early decades are more likely than later ones to have board subfloor laid diagonally across the joists, and those boards are refastened one at a time rather than drawn down as sheets.

Sometimes, but not the way a house floor is. Floors in high-rise condominium buildings are concrete slab, so there are no joists to refasten, and a noise there in most cases comes from the flooring or underlay on top of the slab. The building's rules may also control flooring work. Tell us the building type when you call and we will say whether it is a job we can do.