Learn about floating wall construction in a basement in an expansive soil environment because floating furring and floating partition walls have special requirements. Also included are tips for plumbing a basement bathroom with floating walls. These real questions and real answers may help you address your own basement floating wall concerns.

Floating furring walls?

Floating partition walls for basement requirements?

Floating walls and bathroom requirements?

Visitors' feedback on Floating Wall articles:

I used info from your article (Floating partition walls to basement requirements?) to help construct the interior rooms for my barn. Like your original questioner, I am in Colorado—about 40 miles south of Denver—and have to deal with expansive soils.

For the barn, I used exterior doors to seal the rooms from the barn environment. Therefore, I had to float around the doors (rather than just leave space below). I got the job done, but my design was far more complicated and labor-intensive than would work for most people.

I found few people who could even give me advice on how to go about it, let alone give me a design. If you have any info on how to accomplish this, others might find it useful.

Thanks very much for the article and the web site!

Steve A. (05/10/07)

I just read your articles on floating wall construction. It's hard to find solid, useful information on construction techniques for floating walls. Thanks for your help!

Eric H. (02/25/05)

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