Slide a washer over each anchor.
How to build an interior wall on concrete.
Align the wall with the chalk snap lines that indicates its position.
Repeat at the other end of the board.
Nail through the bottom wall plate into the concrete beneath with a powder actuated nail gun or other masonry fastener.
Make sure joints between cap blocks are filled with mortar and smoothed with the finishing tool.
Walls are built from the ground up.
Drive a nail into the concrete here.
Fully tighten anchor nuts with an adjustable wrench.
Cut four or five two by four blocks each perhaps 10 to 12 inches long and insert them between the end studs on.
Some concrete nails are the cut nail design shown in the photo with a thick flat shank and a tapering v profile.
So if your wall is 8 inches wide your two nails should be 8 inches apart.
Use a hammer drill with 3 16 masonry bit to drill a hole through the wood and into the concrete floor.
Be sure to wear safety goggles when hammering masonry nails into concrete.
Other nails have a thick shank that sometimes has spiral ridges for improved holding power.
Thread and hand tighten a nut onto each anchor.
Space attachments every 12 inches using two at a time.
The tops of cement block walls are typically capped by applying a layer of mortar embedding metal reinforcement strips then covering the wall with solid concrete cap blocks.
Choose a length that will penetrate the concrete at least 1 inch.
Measure from the edge of your concrete footing to the point where the outside face of your wall will be.
Measure out from that nail to where the other face of your wall will be and place another nail.
Cut pressure treated 2 x 4 boards to length and lay them along the chalk line.