Floating floors are those that aren't fixed to either a subfloor or floor joists. While linoleum and cork can be installed as floating floors, most floors of this type are either laminate or vinyl ...

Squeaky floors are great if you want to catch a snoop in your house, but they're terrible for pretty much every other reason. Thankfully, there is a quick fix for insufferable floorboard sounds—in ...

Q: We have several squeaky floors throughout our house, along with a stair step that squeaks. Anyway, we are getting new carpet and thought that now is the time to get rid of the noise. How should we ...

Q: How do you repair squeaking floors? The house is 47 years old, and simply walking across the floors creates a squeak. But it’s only in certain areas, not the whole floor or room. Can we eliminate ...

As you delicately try to tiptoe past that familiar creak in the floor, your foot is inevitably drawn right to it and that terrible squeak is heard, loud as ever, throughout the house. It's happened to ...

At the Good Housekeeping Institute Cleaning Lab, we test mops of all kinds on a variety of flooring surfaces. We evaluate how well they clean, how easy they are to assemble, use, and store, plus ...

For guests, Kaylie has a simple system. “We keep storage ottomans by the front door,” she says. When visitors arrive, she ...

When we moved into our home 25+ years ago, our general contractor fixed the squeaky parquet parlor floors and sub-contracted the refinishing of the floors. It’s time to get this done again. My ...

Q: How do you repair squeaking floors? The house is 47 years old and just walking across the floors creates a squeak. But it's only in certain areas, not the whole floor or room. Can we eliminate the ...