Dividing wall
Dividing wall
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I am designing a short wall (approx. 4.5 ft to 5' tall) that will wrap around an audio/visual area. The area will be about 8'x10' or so. What is the best way to anchor the wall studs to the existing concrete floor so as to make it stable. I know I have the corners to help, but one wall will have a half door which will interrupt the top plates. My thought was Tapcon anchors in the PT sill plate and Simpson SPH4R at each vertical stud. Outside face of wall will be sheathed with 1/2" plywood. Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks and have a great day.






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This is a pretty straight-forward design. Use an appropriate post-fixed anchor for the thickness and age of slab, and solve this as a cantilever with whatever latteral load your code requires for walls (placed at the top, as this is a part wall).
Will you have glazing above?
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Why not ½" sheathing on both sides, that really stiffens (and ties together) the wall diaphragm from both directions (and both sides) when properly nailed at the top and bottom pls. This becomes a stressed skin box beam, a torsion box, and can be loaded from either direction. Use a 2x6 wall because it widens the base pl. from the canti. standpoint. Use conservative (more than code) lateral loading, you know that door jamb is going to be a leaning post, and people will grab it when turning the corner. As needed, maybe mid point of each wall and at each door jamb, provide a rod with threaded ends, full height and tightenable at the top pl. with large pl. washers, in affect prestressing the wall down to the fl. An anchor in the fl., with short threaded rod and a coupling nut on top to receive the full length rod.
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