- 1). Walk over each section of the floor slowly, listening for creaking in the boards. At each point where it creaks, put a small mark on the wood with your piece of chalk.
- 2). Load your drill with a pilot bit. At each point where you put a chalk mark, drill a pilot hole straight down. If the chalk mark is right on a seam between two boards, don't drill the hole there, but drill two holes, one on each side of the mark, about 1 inch inward onto the boards.
- 3). Set up the drill with your screwdriver bit. Get a handful of 1 1/4 inch screws. Walk the floor, sinking a screw at each point where you drilled a pilot hole. Make sure the screw heads are completely below the surface of the floor, leaving a well of about 1/8 inch.
- 4). Use your wax stick to force colored wax into each screw hole, covering the screw head completely and letting the wax mound up over the top. Run the edge of an old credit card across the wax to cut it off and get it flat with the floor.
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