Our garage has a poured concrete wall at the opposite end of the garage doors. One side is attached to the house and is stud and drywall, the ceiling is drywalled and 1/2 of the other wall is drywalled and the lower part is poured concrete. I'd like to hang cabinets on the tall wall that's just poured concrete. Can I just stud this wall out with pressure treated lumber and drywall it? Do I need a vapor barrier or anything? That wall is mainly underground as the house is built into the hill. I know I'll be losing about 4" of depth but I think it will be worth it to be able to mount things to the wall.
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How to properly stud out wall in garage?
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red
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They (Big Box Stores) have those Tapcon screws for concrete. I have used them and they work. Personally I would use polyurethene construction adhesive and the countersink the tapcon (3")screws with pressure treated 2X4 on the flat. That way you would be only using/losing about 2" of deep. Also is there a way to attach the 2X4 to the ceiling? Definitely have them (2X4's) sitting on the floor.
Yeah, I planned to stud the wall out with a top and bottom plate but I really wanted to avoid drilling into the poured concrete wall. I just want to make sure I don't need a vapor barrier or something else since the drywall would be over studs that are tight to a concrete wall that's buried underground.
Greatwhitewing
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I have used drylock on my below grade concrete and studded some of those walls. I simply left a small gap between the studs and concrete wall so the wood wasn't in direct contact with the wall. As far as I know it has worked well since I haven't looked behind there. My wife is **** about mold and seems happy once we sealed our metal bulkhead door.
disclaimer- I am a homeowner not a contractor
Unless I was insulating I would simply mount wood (or other suitable material) strips and mount my storage to those.
disclaimer- I am a homeowner not a contractor
Unless I was insulating I would simply mount wood (or other suitable material) strips and mount my storage to those.
Our garage has a poured concrete wall at the opposite end of the garage doors. One side is attached to the house and is stud and drywall, the ceiling is drywalled and 1/2 of the other wall is drywalled and the lower part is poured concrete. I'd like to hang cabinets on the tall wall that's just poured concrete. Can I just stud this wall out with pressure treated lumber and drywall it? Do I need a vapor barrier or anything? That wall is mainly underground as the house is built into the hill. I know I'll be losing about 4" of depth but I think it will be worth it to be able to mount things to the wall.
p_mori7
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If you are going to heat the space, you should use vapor barrier.
Up here, where most basements are finished for extra living space; putting up a studded wall close to the concrete is the norm.
Proper practice is to vapor barrier both sides of the stud wall.
When I did mine, I build the wall flat on the basement floor, stapled vapor barrier on the back side and wrapped it around the bottom plate, raised my wall into place and secured it with 3" screws to the floor joists, and anchors into the concrete. I placed the wall about 1/2" away from the concrete for an air gap. I then routed my electrical, added batts of fiberglas insulation, then rolled my vapor barrier back up the inside of the stud wall. Drywalled over that, done.
Up here, where most basements are finished for extra living space; putting up a studded wall close to the concrete is the norm.
Proper practice is to vapor barrier both sides of the stud wall.
When I did mine, I build the wall flat on the basement floor, stapled vapor barrier on the back side and wrapped it around the bottom plate, raised my wall into place and secured it with 3" screws to the floor joists, and anchors into the concrete. I placed the wall about 1/2" away from the concrete for an air gap. I then routed my electrical, added batts of fiberglas insulation, then rolled my vapor barrier back up the inside of the stud wall. Drywalled over that, done.