Hi -
I guess I stumbled onto this forum a little too late but I'm glad I did.
Here's my situation: We're finishing the basement of a 100 year old house in Boston, MA. Not looking to make it fabulous, but want walls and a bit more warmth. So it's a fieldstone foundation and a few years ago we had drains installed along the inside perimeter of the floor with 2 sump pumps. Previously we had alot of water - "a river ran through it". With last night's downpour both pumps were going non-stop but they were able to keep the basement dry.
So we are at the point where it is framed out and are almost finished insulating. After reading through alot of the posts here I am confident that we have done it correctly. Except for one major thing. :whistling2: We were very hesitant to compromise the drainage system in any way, and since the bottom plate is over the drain in some areas and close to it in others, we thought it would be fine to just secure the plate with construction adhesive. Basement Technologies literature (the company that did the drain) says not to nail or screw anywhere near their track.
What to do now?? One thought we had was use some kind of L brackets to further distance the nails from the track. I hate the thought of removing the insulation in order to nail the plate to the cement floor. I also hate the thought of ruining the drainage system. Did I mention I hate the thought of our new walls falling down from the weight of the drywall? We are planning on using Densarmor which apparently is even heavier than regular drywall.
Thank you for your thoughts and ideas!!!
Linda
I guess I stumbled onto this forum a little too late but I'm glad I did.
Here's my situation: We're finishing the basement of a 100 year old house in Boston, MA. Not looking to make it fabulous, but want walls and a bit more warmth. So it's a fieldstone foundation and a few years ago we had drains installed along the inside perimeter of the floor with 2 sump pumps. Previously we had alot of water - "a river ran through it". With last night's downpour both pumps were going non-stop but they were able to keep the basement dry.
So we are at the point where it is framed out and are almost finished insulating. After reading through alot of the posts here I am confident that we have done it correctly. Except for one major thing. :whistling2: We were very hesitant to compromise the drainage system in any way, and since the bottom plate is over the drain in some areas and close to it in others, we thought it would be fine to just secure the plate with construction adhesive. Basement Technologies literature (the company that did the drain) says not to nail or screw anywhere near their track.
What to do now?? One thought we had was use some kind of L brackets to further distance the nails from the track. I hate the thought of removing the insulation in order to nail the plate to the cement floor. I also hate the thought of ruining the drainage system. Did I mention I hate the thought of our new walls falling down from the weight of the drywall? We are planning on using Densarmor which apparently is even heavier than regular drywall.
Thank you for your thoughts and ideas!!!
Linda