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LOUD bangs from wooden deck

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:59 pm
by Italics Mine
Every time it gets below say 20 degrees, the wooden deck makes an occassional loud bang. At first I thought someone was throwing a brick at the house, but eventually realized that it's just something natural coming from the contracting wood? But it scares the becheezus out of us.
Is there any way to minimize or prevent this from happening?

Re: LOUD bangs from wooden deck

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:26 pm
by Greg S
No. Unless you can determin exactly which board moving.

Re: LOUD bangs from wooden deck

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:02 pm
by Greg
It's no doubt the wood contracting, what did you fasten things together with?

Greg

Re: LOUD bangs from wooden deck

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:16 pm
by Italics Mine
this deck is like 30 years old, in good shape, and fastened with nails.

Re: LOUD bangs from wooden deck

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:42 pm
by Greg
Perhaps a nice summer project would be to replace the nails with galvanized screws. It may or may not help, but it can't hurt.

Greg