Once the block walls are prepped, the framing can begin ... off the concrete slab by a half an inch or so. Keep in mind that despite your best efforts, the basement will tend to be damper than ...

Dear Jerry: While preparing the basement of our 1950 home for ... Some of the mortar is loose, and the wall bulges in a little over one-half inch at the center of the crack. Outside the house ...

Steve Maxwell answers reader questions about insulating the bottom half of basement walls ... with just an empty wall frame and vapour barrier lower than that. Can I open up the vapour barrier ...

Your basement can be more than a utility and ... nails in one side and a third centered on the other side. For framing half walls, make all of the studs the same length and cut them so the wall ...