Walls are built from the ground up.
How to build an interior wall on a concrete floor.
I use tapcon concrete screws to secure the wood to the floor.
Building a nonstructural wall is simpler than it looks and even attaching it to concrete isn t a big deal.
Cut pressure treated 2 x 4 boards to length and lay them along the chalk line.
Step 1 locate and mark the position of the floor joists above the basement with an electronic stud finder and pencil if the basement is fitted with a ceiling.
Measuring from the basement floor to the top of the sill plates better insures a flat floor because basement concrete slabs are never perfectly level but your wood floor can be by following these steps.
Either way the process to find the height of the bearing plate on the interior lower walls is about the same.
With simple materials and readily available tools the novice carpenter can lay out build and anchor walls on concrete slabs.
Choose a length that will penetrate the concrete at least 1 inch.
Concrete may be tough as rock but with the right tools securing walls to slabs is a smooth process.
Use an impact driver to drive a 3 tapcon screw through the wood and into the floor.
Be sure to wear safety goggles when hammering masonry nails into concrete.
Repeat at the other end of the board.
Other nails have a thick shank that sometimes has spiral ridges for improved holding power.
In this video i show you the method that i use to attach basement framing to a concrete floor.
Since most basements have a concrete floor the tricky part is fixing the partition wall sole plate correctly.
Determine the wall location.
Some concrete nails are the cut nail design shown in the photo with a thick flat shank and a tapering v profile.