Spent 45 minutes hunting down a squeaky floor upstairs in a new build near Austin last Thursday and it turned out to be a loose drywall screw right next to a floor joist.

Drew Perez · 2026-06-12T01:30:03.559427+00:00

Pulled up three sheets of subfloor before I noticed the screw head was proud by maybe a millimeter, has anyone else dealt with phantom noises that trace back to the drywall instead of the framing?

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Spent 45 minutes hunting down a squeaky floor upstairs in a new build near Austin last Thursday and it turned out to be a loose drywall screw right next to a floor joist. | Drywall Installers - nhfree.com