I bought a house built in 1980 a few years back. The stairs squeaked like crazy when I bought it. The carpet and trim were being replaced so I tore off the particle board treads and replaced all of them with pine treads from Menards. I glued the new treads and also used Spax screws to hold them down. The center stringer was cut totally wrong so there was a gap under the center of every tread. I filled the gap with blocks of wood or shims depending on how wide the gap was.
The top three steps are now squeaking almost as bad as before just in the last few days. Is there anything I can do now since these steps have carpet on top and drywall on the bottom?