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Non-pressure treated sill plate in basement

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#1 ·
I recently purchased a house that is newish (build on 2008). The previous homeowner finished the basement and it looked good on the outside but I later found out that they used non pressure treated lumber for the sill plate on a new wall.

The basement has been dry (no stated or obvious signs of water). The walls are finished. Is there any way to "slip" a stainless steel shim under the existing sill plate? Would this help? Any other ideas short of removing and rebuilding the wall? A buddy who is a home inspector realized the mistake and felt that it needed to be fixed.

Thank you for your help with this.
 
#4 ·
There are always implications. You just bought it, did it pass when you had it inspected? Have dealt with some home inspectors and finding a single non PT sill plate is very unlikely.

Just forget about it. And if you want to sell and the buyer says they won't take it with that sill plate, then just negotiate a cost to fix at that time. No reflection on your home inspector friend, but you are worrying unnecessarily. Ron
 
#7 ·
Just a FYI some people use western redwood cedar as a sill plate others use Black walnut. Others use Doug fir or larch. just as long as it stays dry not a problem. also they could have used a sill gasket and that will be fine too. as said before your worrying about nothing.
 
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