 pretty simple fix yeah i just used like one before but you know you can go to the hardware store and buy the metal ones right but we actually just bought a home about three years ago had the same issue and so i did that and it pretty much eliminated the squeaks in fact this floor was bouncing so much that it was we had just installed new uh engineered flooring okay and it was actually separating from the end i was able to drive it back together from the end but after i put the bridge work in took care of the problem