You know about floating walls?
Up here our basement diveder-walls have to float up and down with the heaving of the cement floors , with hydrostatic and frost pressure. Wooden floors over the concrete have to float as well and be divorced from the walls. If we don't do this the semi-annual heaving tears thechit outof everything.
Some people hang their walls from the overhead floor joist,and let the bottoms float, others anchor to the concrete and float them at the top. I like the former, cuz different parts of the basements can heave differently. Just don't forget to pull the pictures down before the party starts, upstairs.
I'm not a carpenter and don't know squat about codes, cuz as a property owner I don't have to follow no stinking code....... yet. Well I know one thing, the inspector makes random checks, and if he don't like you, he has the power to put a stop to my construction. But I work on his car so he likes me. I mean he would like me to continue working on his car.
And I can tell you if you bring an electrical plan to the electrical inspector, make sure it doesn't contain any switched neutrals.Wiring your garage lights and some plugs with switched neutrals can save you hundreds of feet of wire, and your switches will last forever. This makes perfect sense to just run a ring of power all around your garage and Tee everything on to it, then run the neutral to the switcher and into the neutral ring, also strung all around the garage. Well it looked pretty good to me! I guess they won't get rich selling me wire I said.
Not so fast AJ said the inspector, that ain't code. Why not said I; what's wrong with it? It's just not done that way, cuz of the code says he.
Look I said I understand about stopsigns and redlights, but this here is a better plan than your stinking code. Yur arguing with the wrong guy says he, this ain't code, and when I come to inspect yur work, it has to pass code, or I don't sign off, and you can't close up the walls, and after one year your permit expires and it will cost you another $600 for a new permit.................
So I made that guy happy that day;there are hundreds and hundreds of feet of extra wiring in that stinking garage;
but the new guy works on his cars now.
