crazybrit
Well-known member
Not entirely garage related but there are a bunch of knowledgeable folks here so I'll ask anyways 
In my old 1920s house I installed Simpson URFP plates to strap the sill plate to the foundation. It was a totally unfinished half basement with half crawl space. Easy job.
My new house (also 1920s) has a finished half basement with unfinished crawl space. In the finished portion I recently had the drywall open at the sill plate to run some conduit (for datacom) out to my detached shop and so was looking at the sill plate/foundation layout.
The way the previous owners did the drywall framing looks like it's going to make things tricky (and I assume they used this method throughout the entire finished basement space). This added 2x4 framing isn't structural so I assume it would be possible to remove material from the back of the horizontal 2x4 butted against the sill plate but maybe there is a better way I'm not thinking of? Or alternate strapping systems?
I'm not sure why they added the darker feathering strips, perhaps the foundation wall isn't consistent.
In my old 1920s house I installed Simpson URFP plates to strap the sill plate to the foundation. It was a totally unfinished half basement with half crawl space. Easy job.
My new house (also 1920s) has a finished half basement with unfinished crawl space. In the finished portion I recently had the drywall open at the sill plate to run some conduit (for datacom) out to my detached shop and so was looking at the sill plate/foundation layout.
The way the previous owners did the drywall framing looks like it's going to make things tricky (and I assume they used this method throughout the entire finished basement space). This added 2x4 framing isn't structural so I assume it would be possible to remove material from the back of the horizontal 2x4 butted against the sill plate but maybe there is a better way I'm not thinking of? Or alternate strapping systems?
I'm not sure why they added the darker feathering strips, perhaps the foundation wall isn't consistent.
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