Be sure to wear safety goggles when hammering masonry nails into concrete.
How to build an interior wall on a concrete floor.
Walls are built from the ground up.
I use tapcon concrete screws to secure the wood to the floor.
Other nails have a thick shank that sometimes has spiral ridges for improved holding power.
Choose a length that will penetrate the concrete at least 1 inch.
Some concrete nails are the cut nail design shown in the photo with a thick flat shank and a tapering v profile.
Either way the process to find the height of the bearing plate on the interior lower walls is about the same.
Determine the wall location.
With simple materials and readily available tools the novice carpenter can lay out build and anchor walls on concrete slabs.
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.
Use an impact driver to drive a 3 tapcon screw through the wood and into the floor.
This is a short video on anchoring a wooden wall onto a concrete floor.
Building a nonstructural wall is simpler than it looks and even attaching it to concrete isn t a big deal.
Concrete may be tough as rock but with the right tools securing walls to slabs is a smooth process.
In this video i show you the method that i use to attach basement framing to a concrete floor.
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.
Repeat at the other end of the board.
Since most basements have a concrete floor the tricky part is fixing the partition wall sole plate correctly.