Determine the wall location.
How to build an interior wall on a concrete floor.
Be sure to wear safety goggles when hammering masonry nails into concrete.
With simple materials and readily available tools the novice carpenter can lay out build and anchor walls on concrete slabs.
Some concrete nails are the cut nail design shown in the photo with a thick flat shank and a tapering v profile.
In this video i show you the method that i use to attach basement framing to a concrete floor.
Use a hammer drill with 3 16 masonry bit to drill a hole through the wood and into the concrete floor.
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.
I use tapcon concrete screws to secure the wood to the floor.
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.
This is a short video on anchoring a wooden wall onto a concrete floor.
Walls are built from the ground up.
Other nails have a thick shank that sometimes has spiral ridges for improved holding power.
The end result of the project however probably will be.
Cut pressure treated 2 x 4 boards to length and lay them along the chalk line.
Choose a length that will penetrate the concrete at least 1 inch.
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.
Use an impact driver to drive a 3 tapcon screw through the wood and into the floor.