Ponywall Concrete Floor

This is a short video on anchoring a wooden wall onto a concrete floor.

Ponywall concrete floor. Measure and cut two two by fours one of. Mark the length of the new wall on both the adjoining wall and floor. Remove enough drywall to access the floor plate the flat 2 4 that runs along the bottom of the wall 2. I m using something called a hex sleeve anchor to secure the bottom plate to the floor.

The idea is to drill a hole in the cement then drive these down. A pony wall creates a visual and functional barrier between two areas of a large room or open floor plan without closing them off from one another and leaving either segment feeling cramped. The bottom plates of pony walls that rest on the foundation are required by code to be bolted to the concrete just like the mudsills that tie the rest of the house framing to the foundation. Choose a length that will penetrate the concrete at least 1 inch.

Snap chalk lines between each set of marks to guide the wall installation later. Select how you would like the pony wall to display in plan view. Plain concrete slabs have served as the flooring material for basements garages patios and utility areas for many years but concrete is now also a viable material in home interiors where it can be polished etched or stained to serve as the finished flooring surface if you are used to thinking of concrete as a utilitarian surface suitable only for utilitarian surfaces the many virtues. For example if the pony wall is located on floor 2 these settings might have the elevation of lower wall top as 157 3 4 and the height off floor of 36.

Be sure to wear safety goggles when hammering masonry nails into concrete. When a pony wall rests on a foundation or a concrete slab the bottom plate should be made of pressure treated lumber to avoid rot. Other nails have a thick shank that sometimes has spiral ridges for improved holding power. These walls are sometimes called cripple walls and they carry the load of the entire structure and transmit it to the foundation.

I use tapcon concrete screws to secure the wood to the floor. Select how you would like openings such as windows and doors to be displayed in the portion of the wall that won t be.