Hello!
I hope to soon have a new basement floor poured, and then some walls will need to go up. I can't quite decide how to proceed.
The underfloor heating runs a bit haphazardly (installed as I usually say), so I would prefer to avoid drilling into the floor if possible. I also prefer to build the walls with studs as there will be some electrical and network installations, and it's such a hassle to chase. Moreover, it's heavy and laborious to build with masonry.
I'm torn between two options.
Option 1 is simply to glue a steel track with PL400 and place a stud in it. The simplest option.
Option 2 is to build a layer of leca blocks on the floor and then place the stud wall on top of it. The point of this would be to have some "flood protection," so if there were to be 5 cm of water on the basement floor due to a pipe blockage or some other unexpected event, it wouldn't be a disaster. I planned to put a tile baseboard at the bottom of the wall anyway. Surely leca blocks laid on the concrete floor should hold well enough?
The downside of option 2 is, of course, that it's more complicated. As far as I know, there has never been a flood in this basement, but there's always a first time.
Am I completely off-track with my idea? How would you have done it?
I hope to soon have a new basement floor poured, and then some walls will need to go up. I can't quite decide how to proceed.
The underfloor heating runs a bit haphazardly (installed as I usually say), so I would prefer to avoid drilling into the floor if possible. I also prefer to build the walls with studs as there will be some electrical and network installations, and it's such a hassle to chase. Moreover, it's heavy and laborious to build with masonry.
I'm torn between two options.
Option 1 is simply to glue a steel track with PL400 and place a stud in it. The simplest option.
Option 2 is to build a layer of leca blocks on the floor and then place the stud wall on top of it. The point of this would be to have some "flood protection," so if there were to be 5 cm of water on the basement floor due to a pipe blockage or some other unexpected event, it wouldn't be a disaster. I planned to put a tile baseboard at the bottom of the wall anyway. Surely leca blocks laid on the concrete floor should hold well enough?
The downside of option 2 is, of course, that it's more complicated. As far as I know, there has never been a flood in this basement, but there's always a first time.
Am I completely off-track with my idea? How would you have done it?