We had the main floor and upstairs of our 1930's Toronto home de-squeeked. The noise was becoming unbearable, and so we hired Silent Floor Solutions. They were very professional, timely and courteous. The project took 5 whole days to complete. They offered to come back a few weeks later if I found any spots to be a bit noisy still and they did return free of charge. They don't guarantee 100% squeak free, and they can't. Unless you truly pull up all the flooring and fix what's below it, they do the best they can. They do guarantee around 75-90% better than it was. Our home was one of the noisiest they said (my cat made it squeak when he walked!), and I'm sure they got rid of probably 85% of the noise.
The only negative we encountered was that our floors were original to the house, so when they marked the flooring with tape (that's how they figure out where to drill) and pulled it up - the finish came up with it and left us with many stripes on the ground. The floors never looked great to begin with, but we will need to fix that a bit. I would suggest perhaps that they try using a chalk pen or something instead so it doesn't happen to anyone else. They did use the 'best kind' of tape for this, but unfortunately my old floors won.
I would recommend this to anyone who is unable to sneak into bed without waking their partner or to anyone who has a basement apartment below them! We're quite happy with the outcome and are hopeful the effects will last a while.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $9,000.00