how to frame basement walls and garage walls

hello everybody welcome back to Pauls workshop Channel and today I'm going to talk about if you have cinderblock walls somewhere in your home or this is garage it I'm working on now how to pretty much dry wallet and make it live in space or make it look better but let's get to it now the first thing you have to do is get a bottom plate and I like to use pressure-treated if there's concrete below just because of the moisture and they will last out last anything else if you Lou if you just use regular boards you might have some rotting issues later on in life so you can do it correctly the first time now this is the corner I'm going to start at so what I do here is I put the bottom plate down I use liquid nail and I also use these 3 inch wedge anchors let me just show you the bottom so it's 1/4 inch actually two and a half inch I want to go too deep but these seem to hold pretty well plus you have the liquid nail and I've had a really good experience for these anchors I've used also I've used these before but I prefer to use these kind I don't know why but they just seem to drive in better and also these kinds they have a little hump to it this round space kind of mushroom head and I really don't like it so with these they drive flat so then you could do your way out and you don't have to I just for for the bolt when you do your frame and you can just do 16 inches and I or 24 12 inch whatever you want to do and another thing that I do is these boards are three and a half three and five eighths inches it varies but I like to set my bored at four inches just because a lot of the times if you look at this gap it changes you go it gets bigger it gets smaller and with these walls a lot of the times they're not perfectly if you have really jacked walls you want an inch or even a half inch and a half from the wall itself to put your framing and also when you insulated you could have an air gap in between for air to just flow so it's always good to leave a little bit of a gap I do a half an inch I don't know if there's a requirement for that but I've been doing it like that for years and you just do a level line across each side and you'll put your top plate on and start putting in the studs it's a simple process you could also call this wall with some kind of about maybe even a a Redguard waterproofing they use and showers put two coats on and you'll seal the moisture in the wall so then the moisture could just go to the outside instead of the inside or at least I'll give you some sort of protection and I would if you're gonna roll on some kind of a moisture barrier I would go down and past maybe a foot past on the inside of the floor so I'll start the framing and I'll get back to this video Shirley [Applause] you and this is the finished product simple project easy to do could take someone a ma usually a one-man team so this entire garage I think this is a 24 by 24 foot garage and it took me about eight hours to frame this up very simple project a couple things to look out for a little tip is I'm gonna i spaced not what I did with this as in the beginning of this video I snapped the lines at four inches from the cinder block walls on all corners so I went snap the line and that's how I put the bottom plate down now something to look out for you have this gap so as you could tell this wall kind of pushes in in the middle and so I have instead of a half-inch here I have a but maybe less than a quarter a quarter inch or so an eighth over there and if you see over here it's about 3/8 from the standard framing lumber and when you go up that wall pushes out towards the outside of the garage and you have about an inch and a quarter inch gap over there and that's something to look out for before you start with your bottom plate throw a level on walk around make sure the walls are not leaning in if they were leaning in about an inch or an inch and a half I would have a real problem I'd have to you take the bottom plate off and move it to a new location to space it out an inch and a half whatever it is on tap or I would have to rip these studs all of them to you but then with the insulation it won't be good either so something to look out for it's a very simple project just about anybody could do it with the right tools and hopefully this helps somebody out anyways thanks for watching and hit that like button and subscribe if you like my content

Channel: Pauls Workshop

Views: 509,366

Keywords: How to, Frame, Unfinished walls, Walls, Basement, Garage, Lumber, Concrete walls, Cinder block walls, 16” o c, Window framing, Finishing, Insulation, Non living space, Turning into, Living space, Framing, Build, Building

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Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 07 2018