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Excavating contractor is starting my footers two week later than planed due to the weather. If I start framing the walls now I won't have time get everything closed in before I leave for vacation. I will be gone for two weeks, will there be a potential problem if I leave the stud walls and...

My garage addition will be 20ft x 28ft wood frame construction, stem wall below grade will be 8" block, any problem with using 6" block for the two coarse above grade. The 4" concrete floor would be poured starting on top of the last coarse of 8" block leaving 12" of 6" block before starting...

Stem wall will be 8" block, any reason the blocks above floor level can't be 6"?

getting ready to start my garage, can I attach the bottom plate of my stud wall directly to the the block stem wall or should I attach a sill plate first and then the stud wall to that? Stem wall will be aprox 18" above grade do I need to use pressure treated lumber for the bottom plate?