Novice DIY'er here by the way. I have both creaky floorboards and loud water pipes so I figured I'd tackle both jobs in one go if I can. I get water hammer when taps are turned on and off and the pipes also bang very loudly when the central heating is on. Most of the pipes in my house are flexi pipes so I'm guessing they haven't been secured all that well in the floor/ceiling cavity.
So my plan is to lift the floorboards, secure the pipes and then refit some new floorboards 'properly'. So how do I lift the floor boards without just going crazy and ripping it all up in a big mess? Do I hole saw around each nail or punch each nail right through the board?
Also it seems that the upstairs floorboards were put in before all the stud walling (usual practice I assume), but that means I have some floorboards that go under the stud walling, do I just leave those individual boards and try to work around them?
See attached image, this is typically how each room looks, you can see that every other board disappears under the wall :-(
So my plan is to lift the floorboards, secure the pipes and then refit some new floorboards 'properly'. So how do I lift the floor boards without just going crazy and ripping it all up in a big mess? Do I hole saw around each nail or punch each nail right through the board?
Also it seems that the upstairs floorboards were put in before all the stud walling (usual practice I assume), but that means I have some floorboards that go under the stud walling, do I just leave those individual boards and try to work around them?
See attached image, this is typically how each room looks, you can see that every other board disappears under the wall :-(