Q:I recently moved into an older home with hardwood floors that squeak badly. How can I stop the noise? - A. Anddover A:The squeaks, of course, are caused by wood rubbing against wood or nails when the floor is walked on. You have the best chance of fixing the squeaks if there is unobstructed access to the floor from below - a basement without a ceiling or a crawl space, for example. Go into the basement and have someone walk on the floor overhead. Mark the squeaky areas on the subfloor (the layer of boards or plywood under the finish flooring) with chalk. Examine these areas closely for gaps between the top of joists and the underside of the subfloor; the gaps could be permitting the wood to move.
STATE COLLEGE -- Little Emily Whitehead strutted down the catwalk inside the Bryce Jordan Center, still smiling despite months of chemotherapy. On the arena floor below, Steve DeSandis jumped and cheered, still dancing after 18 hours.
Wall Street fell to its lowest finish since October 2002 on Thursday because of worries about the future of banks and mixed economic reports that included increasing unemployment and a surprising surge in inflation. All three major indexes dropped more than 1 percent, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below a psychological barrier established Nov. 20 of 7552.29, a setback for many investors who hoped that finish would mark the low point of the market's extended decline from its October 2007 highs.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS - Carleton Varney stood talking in a passageway of the cavernous main lobby of The Greenbrier. He suddenly pointed to a tall chest. "That's where the jardini re should go," he said. There are hundreds of decorative vases, bowls, lamps and figurines throughout the vast public areas of the resort. But Varney was referring to a specific large blue and white ginger jar that was a floor below near the entrance to the casino.
INDIANAPOLIS - New charter schools could be established more easily in Indiana under a measure the state House of Representatives approved Tuesday night. The bill passed with almost entirely Republican support, despite the chants of a raucous crowd of hundreds of teachers who had moved from a rally on the floor below up to the hallway outside the House chamber.
ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Moments after the massive earthquake struck this northeast Japan town, editor Hiroyuki Takeuchi gazed about his tiny newsroom and took stock: His computers were worthless; his printing press on the floor below would soon be flooded by the tsunami. Still, the next day Takeuchi and his staff of six reporters made sure the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun hit the streets just as it had for the last 100 years. For six days, working by flashlight, wearing overcoats in the chilly office, they put the paper out by hand, with black felt-tip markers and large sheets of white paper.
The Maryland Institute for the Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers Inc. has ceased operations after 34 years, but it did not have to look far to find a new home for Maryland-based continuing legal education. Beginning Monday, the Maryland State Bar Association -- one of MICPEL's founding partners, based one floor below in the Maryland Bar Center -- will assume MICPEL's publishing and program mission. The MSBA will create a permanent department devoted to education, and its 27 law sections will take the lead in providing continuing legal education.
By Jim Fuller Register Staff jfuller@newhavenregister.com UNCASVILLE -- With a poker tournament in full swing on the floor below on Thursday afternoon, the Connecticut Sun went about proving they had an ace or two up their collective sleeves as well.
Prepare to be dazzled when the City Market Building opens later this summer. Light pours in, dancing on the highly polished hemlock floors of the mezzanine and bouncing along the white glazed bricks of the first-floor stalls below. Upstairs, in the old gymnasium that's been long cut off from the public, floor-to-ceiling windows illuminate the ballroom. The room known now as Charter Hall, a nod to Roanoke and the market's genesis, sweeps across the expanse, issuing an invitation: Come, plan your event. Eight parties already accepted, reserving their dates; others are lining up.
I wouldn't be a very good drunken driver. It's 9:30 a.m. and I'm trying to focus on the straight white chalk line on the floor below me. My feet have a detached, queasy 3- D look.
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