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Didn't really think it through I guess. attached the interior wall to the parquet.
I had actually planned to use steel studs buuut you know how it usually goes. I had a bunch of wood studs and didn’t feel like going to the hardware store. The wall had to go up.
So I put up the wall, thought I put it under tension but no, the base plate moved when I grabbed the wall. Then I thought, sure, better attach it. There's also supposed to be a door, so I need to have it properly fastened on both sides.
I had some nail plugs, so I drilled through the parquet and down into the concrete, hammered them in, and they didn't hold well at all. The lightweight concrete crumbled when I drilled.
The final solution was to nest the base directly into the parquet through the stud with 4.5x60. Quite a bit of material in the parquet.
The nail plugs stay in place even though they didn’t hold well.
If I had been smart, I would have just slathered some PL400 under the wood stud, and that would have done the trick, but it's difficult now. However, I'm thinking, if I just nest into the parquet and not all the way through, it would be no different than gluing, right? It's fixed regardless?
So far, I've only covered from one direction, so there's still time to make the best of it.
Anyway, we're going to lay a new floating floor on top of the parquet, so maybe it doesn't matter much? The concern is that the parquet might shrink/swell and perhaps rise?
About 40 sqm of parquet.
We've moved out doors; otherwise, it would have been nice to renovate the parquet (very worn). We decided to lay a new floor on top because it's easier to get it all the way out to the doors.
So I put up the wall, thought I put it under tension but no, the base plate moved when I grabbed the wall. Then I thought, sure, better attach it. There's also supposed to be a door, so I need to have it properly fastened on both sides.
I had some nail plugs, so I drilled through the parquet and down into the concrete, hammered them in, and they didn't hold well at all. The lightweight concrete crumbled when I drilled.
The final solution was to nest the base directly into the parquet through the stud with 4.5x60. Quite a bit of material in the parquet.
The nail plugs stay in place even though they didn’t hold well.
If I had been smart, I would have just slathered some PL400 under the wood stud, and that would have done the trick, but it's difficult now. However, I'm thinking, if I just nest into the parquet and not all the way through, it would be no different than gluing, right? It's fixed regardless?
So far, I've only covered from one direction, so there's still time to make the best of it.
Anyway, we're going to lay a new floating floor on top of the parquet, so maybe it doesn't matter much? The concern is that the parquet might shrink/swell and perhaps rise?
About 40 sqm of parquet.
We've moved out doors; otherwise, it would have been nice to renovate the parquet (very worn). We decided to lay a new floor on top because it's easier to get it all the way out to the doors.
Redo it right.
Since I haven't built the wall yet, I use an OSB sheet as a spacer (10mm movement allowance) and cut the floor on both sides of the bottom plate with the multi-tool. Then I unscrew the bottom plate from the wall studs and knock it out. I pick up the floor piece and lay down the bottom plate. I wedge some wood in between and fasten the wall studs to the bottom plate. Anchor the bottom plate in the concrete.
It would have been finished today if the stubborn parquet hadn't worn out my only multi-blade; anyway, I managed to do one side in 20 minutes, so it wasn't that much work.
I'll buy some more blades and continue tomorrow.
Since I haven't built the wall yet, I use an OSB sheet as a spacer (10mm movement allowance) and cut the floor on both sides of the bottom plate with the multi-tool. Then I unscrew the bottom plate from the wall studs and knock it out. I pick up the floor piece and lay down the bottom plate. I wedge some wood in between and fasten the wall studs to the bottom plate. Anchor the bottom plate in the concrete.
It would have been finished today if the stubborn parquet hadn't worn out my only multi-blade; anyway, I managed to do one side in 20 minutes, so it wasn't that much work.
I'll buy some more blades and continue tomorrow.
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