Mike wrote:
Can a rookie hope to be successful at pulling up the carpet in a few
places in the upstairs of our house, screwing the subfloor to the
joists to hopefully eliminate some nagging squeaks, and then putting
the carpet back using a carpet stretcher (having never used one, hope
to rent one) and make it look as good as it does now? Some of these
squeaks are just driving me to distraction and I need to fix them. I
addressed most of the squeaks on the main floor by going to the
basement and putting shims between the subfloor and the joist in the
offending area. I know there is a product for eliminating squeaks
under carpeted floors, special screws that you can drill in and then
snap the head off, but I worry about damaging the berber carpet.

Thanks for any guidance/advice.

Mike

I have this vague memory of seeing an "Ask This Old House" segment
within the last year - 18 months where they dealth with this issue.
Long and short, there is a screw system which goes in with a standard
power screw driver that has a snap off head that goees right through the
carpet and plywood subfloor into the floor joists. Screw gets ssnapped
off level with the top of the plywood floor, never shows through the pa
or carpet.

Probably won't work on hardwood floors.

You may want to google for the ATOH web site and search that site for
the segment.