How best to fasten wood walls to concrete floor in basement?

You didn't ask but be sure that you use treated wood for the sole plate or place a moisture barier between the sole plate and the concrete. Put a good bead of construction on the basement concrete. Put your wall in place. Unless you have a power hammer, use 2" cut nails and a 4 lb sledge hammer to nail plate to the floor.

Agree with the PT wood and adhesive but I use my Remington nail gun. It isn't that it is better than a sledge, I just like to surprise the crew from time to time. I usually grab my chest right after firing the hammer.

Hi all...

Just wanted to provide a visual on the remingtom gun (or ramset gun)... this is about $75.00 plus cost of .22 caliber powder shots and nails.

The cheaper set is the single shot nailset... about $25.00 plus cost of .22 caliber powder shots and nails

For pressure treated lumber into concrete use the YELLOW .22 caliber shots and 3 inch nails. All sold at home supply stores.

Hope that helped some... visually that is... ;) Mark

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You can also pre drill with a hammer drill and masonry bit then secure it with a concrete screw called a tapcon its not as loud and a little more precise.

Gleghvah:

Also a great choice... I love these. Tapcon screws are available with phillips head or hex head. See pics. Below.

Again, just a visual for asker... I am building quite a picture library... ;)

Just to be a pain, but you had better check with your local building codes if they will allow the use of pt lumber inside of the house. I know in ontario canada it is illegal. Has to do with fire and pcb's.

Could you send me a link to that code? I have never read a code that disallowed PT inside a home. In case of a fire there are far more damgerous issues that PT lumber attached to a floor catching fire.