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Lifting up floors to solve micro cracking ceilings

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.39 PM

Hi all, I am a complete noob all things DIY, please bare with me. 6 years ago we bought a house from Taylor Wimpey. It quickly developed micro cracking. After a hard and lengthy battle they agreed to replace all downstairs ceilings and put resilient bars. I would say this solved the problem to at least 95%. Not a full 100%, but we are happy with the results. We have just bought another house from them, same estate (and sold the first one). Despite me asking all along the buying process what is the current sate of play with micro cracking, I was being assured all is good now. Well we just got the keys and guess what - micro cracking everywhere ... the first house took about 6 months to develop, now - straight in. After raising the problem with them they explained that they are no longer offer resi bars to remedy. Instead there pulling up all the floors and put noggins in to "stiffen up the floor", which supposedly eliminates the problem. My questions are as follows: 1. In order to lift the glued T&G floorboards they need to be cut up. Then, when put back they will lose the T&G interlocks and will be screwed down. Is this a good thing to do? I had some opinions from my friends (some more some less versed in the subject) that this is terrible thing to do, and that the floor will never be the same again. 2. Can stiffening up the floor really help with this ? How stiff can noggins make it, because in order to stop the micro cracking it would pretty much need to be rock solid. 3. On top of micro cracking, we have countless hot spots where the actual floorboards are creaking and squeaking, really badly. In my dumb mind I am thinking that lifting and reattaching the floor may have a good effect on whatever it is that is causing the floor to make noises. Basically once there up they can see what is wrong and correct as necessary. So a good thing ? 4. OR .... should I not let them touch the floors and insist on resi bars, because ripping up the floor is a terrible idea that I will regret later ? Kind Regards, Thomas.