The people that live upstairs from me have a band. I surround sound system and don't know were the volume control is. Never sleep(I work 3rd shift, they make noise all day and night). Stomp around. Fight( I have had to call the cops on them once for throwing each other across the apartment.) Have horrible cooking sense(the smell makes us almost vomit).
Consider yourself lucky.
It would be cheap enough, but it would require lifting both the carpet and the pad first, which I don't want to do, even though it would be maintenance doing it. Plus, if it didn't work over time, it would be difficult to talk the apt. management into repeating the job.
Those break away screws are something that I could do, if maintenance won't.
EDIT: Besides, I would enjoy hammering on the floor...to find the joist, of course.
It's not your problem! It's your owner's problem.
You pay good money to live there and if the downstairs people are annoyed by the creaky floors have them deal with the owner's.
I wouldn't spend one dime for talc or screws.
Been there and done that when living in apartments.
You are right, but since I'm disabled, I do not want to have to move, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to solve the problem.
Even stopping the creaking doesn't entirely solve the problem, because I also have a couple of cranky old woman on each side of me that like to bang on the walls for no good reason. A while back, I was simply rolling a carpet steamer into a closet, over maybe 8 feet, and before I got it inside, she started banging.
Have you tried to start banging back, or making more movement when they start banging on the walls?
I also smoke, and am not trying to quit. I know that sometimes the smell goes out to the public hallway, but I do not believe that it goes through walls or floors. If it does, then they are just going to have to get used to it.
On the last inspection, I spray the apartment with Febreze, and the managers was surprised and asked if I still smoked in the aparment.
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