Need to raise half of my floor in a room where I have cast a full concrete slab. In the slab, I also have underfloor heating, so how do I attach the floor joists? (Don't want to drill or nail because of the underfloor heating). Should I use some paper between the wood and the concrete?
Are you going to build a stage, or?
I would lay out a sill as a frame (on sill insulation) and then attach the floor joists to these sills. To anchor everything, the outermost beams are attached to the walls (you can probably find wall studs somewhere). A beam across the front and one at the back in the floor joist as well, with the rear one also anchored to a wall stud.
I would lay out a sill as a frame (on sill insulation) and then attach the floor joists to these sills. To anchor everything, the outermost beams are attached to the walls (you can probably find wall studs somewhere). A beam across the front and one at the back in the floor joist as well, with the rear one also anchored to a wall stud.
Building a home theater. And all the other walls in this room are made of lightweight concrete/ytong, but there's no problem fastening the studs to the wall.
But no pressure-treated against the concrete floor plate or any tar paper under the sole plate if I now lay it? I believe that the underfloor heating itself keeps moisture away.
But no pressure-treated against the concrete floor plate or any tar paper under the sole plate if I now lay it? I believe that the underfloor heating itself keeps moisture away.
If you have underfloor heating, keep in mind that you should probably have it quite open under the construction so that you can distribute the heat the floor contributes throughout the room, preventing it from being trapped under the floor.
Hmm, yeah, I should probably think about this a bit. The most urgent thing for this room right now is getting a ceiling in place, so I really just need to put up a wall to divide the room into a home theater room and a server/data room. So I was thinking the following...Snuttjulle said:
Take a 45x95 to use as the bottom and fasten the two outermost studs to this, then raise the whole thing up and fasten the two outermost studs to the ytong walls, then take an upper horizontal stud and nail it to the beam ceiling...? Incomprehensible? But this should create a stable wall without me having to attach it to the floor. The only problem is that one ytong wall is an exterior wall (365mm thick), so here I probably need some kind of paper in between before ...