HOW TO FIX LOOSE CREAKY AND SQUEAKY STAIRS #howto #stairs #repair #diy

Hello welcome back to the Home Improvements Channel UK and on today's episode we're going to be showing you guys at home a couple of methods how to fix the annoying squeaky stair and just remember if you guys are enjoying these videos please hit the like and subscribe button and hit the bell notification to get regular videos from us back to the video. A couple of methods i'm going to show you one is to water down some PVA the other is to fix the nose of close with the stair down if you haven't got access to underneath your staircase. Right for the first method, the PVA which you're going to be pouring down the back edge. That crack there, that's one of the ones that makes noise. So we're going to grab some PVA and you want a little pot. Ta-da! You want yourself a brush of some sort and then some water. Right, so basically this method, what we're doing is, we're taking your standard PVA, it ain't got to be this mate, it can be any old make you like, and the reason we've got water is we're going to be watering it down so it's super thin, so that it can work its way down into your step, so that when it sets, it glues it all back together again. If you just pour PVA down and try brushing it in, nothing's going to happen, it's just going to sit on top and go rotten on it. Starting off with about a 50-50 mix, so half and half, so bang some glue in your little pot. What? Delicious. Now get yourself some water and then you can use a stick if you want but you're going to need a brush so you might as well just use it. And we're just going to... This takes a little bit of time. Work it in there. You're going to think that it's not mixing and then all of a sudden... It's still not mixed so just mix it well yeah just make sure it's super watered down because you see how thick it is you're never going to get that in that gap this is why we want it super watery right so that's what you're looking for see how watery that glue is now and then that gap that we were talking about earlier just just go a bit mental with it. Yeah as long as underneath is blocked just remember that if you've got an open staircase underneath make sure it's clear because this will run through and then all we're using the brush to do is to push it around into that gap. So now because it's so watery that's running down the back and then once it sets it should glue that riser back to this tread. So you poured your glue down the back and you've brushed it all in as much as you can get in there. One extra little tip for for this first method. If your riser is super loose and there's a big gap and you can't get access from underneath the staircase like here, this is completely bolted in, get yourself a little pilot bit and a drill and you're going to drill a little pilot hole. You start off square and then you come back up and you go in at a steep angle, probably like 45 degrees. You're trying to hit this and you've only got that much wood. Let's go. If you're doing it, get yourself a countersink and countersink that. We're not going to do that now because we don't actually need to do this. We're just showing you. Put your screw in and then you're just going to screw up. What it's going to do is grab that back bolt and it's going to pull it in tight and then run your glue in once you've pulled that riser back in. And you'll end up with that. So you've got nothing there. It's not going to affect anything. You can still put your carpet or whatever you're putting down over it. It's no drama. And then just leave it for... All right, 24 hours to fully go off and then it should be golden. Step two, drills and screws. Method two is going to be using some screws, a pilot bit, a screw, dig through your great grandad's shed and find the crappiest tape measure you possibly can and a little pencil. And what we're going to be doing is fixing the tread back onto the riser. So first step we'll take you through that now. Your first job is going to be determining how deep your nose is and where this riser is in the in the tread. So you just grab your tape measure, plonk it underneath and if you look above you'll see we've got a 20 mil nose there. So what you want to do is add say another 10 mil onto that because you want to be in the middle of it and you measure 30 mil from the front of that nose like this. You can do this with an adjustable square or whatever. And you're just gonna put a little mark like that. and that is where we're going to pile up and put our screws so this sort of screw don't come through here in it yeah that gives you the measurement to get hit this piece of wood i recommend sort of around five along the top if you're doing this method the reason this can become squeaky here is because these are like rebated into the tread so it sits inside so if you imagine that's this underneath it's got a little rebate in it and that So you should end up with some pilot holes like this and just remember to size the pilot bit to your screws and then what you want to do is just grab yourself a counter sink bit, counter sink the tops, all that's going to do is stop you from having a lip. thread from the screw head so the screw is going to sit directly perfectly flat in the thread so it won't cause you any problems stops it from splitting so does the pilot bit you could just bang a screw through this but chances are you're going to split the wood off so don't do that this is what you're looking for and to make sure you've done your measurements you just peek under that nose and make sure you haven't come through or anything like that that's how you know you've gone too far forward and measured it right so we're going to grab some screws and then we're going to put them in and we're going to show you the end result So you're going to have your three screws in and all you're going to do is send them the rest of the way on. Don't go mental with this. You only want to just clamp it down. You ain't got to go crazy. You don't have to use an impact, you can use a combi. And that's what you should be left with, some nice flush, nothing's protruding, nothing's split, the nose is still in one place. Those stupid metal brackets going from here to there. Those L brackets are terrible, they make your carpet look rough. If you can avoid them, avoid them. So, quick little recap of what we've done. So we've warmed down some PVA, we've poured it down the back of the tread. We've put a screw in the rear of the tread at 45 or maybe even a bit steeper of an angle and grabbed that rear riser and pulled it in tight. And we've pre-drilled the nose, countersink it and put some screws in the nose into the next riser. So that's a couple of methods. You can use these together. You don't need to use them individually. So if you've got a really bad step and you think, oh, that bit's gone, there's no problem with you using it all. you can and if you can get underneath then obviously there's even more options maybe we'll do that in another video in the future but for now from the top with no access you can do this you can drill at an angle and pull that riser back in and you can run water down PVA or wood glue down the back let it set for a day and then you're all golden And that's a wrap from the Home Improvements Channel UK! If you've been enjoying our videos please hit the like button and the subscribe button and hit that bell notification to get regular videos from us and we'll catch you in the next one!