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Default Best way to anchor basement walls ?

The Reverend Natural Light wrote:
On Mar 25, 8:29 am, sid wrote:
What is the best way to secure/anchor the foot of a basement walls.

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Avoid the gunpowder charge nail guns as they can crack the slab.

I second the tapcon recommendations.


I've never seen that happen--must either be a poor slab or the wrong
fastener/charge. The powder-actuated would be my first choice (but I
have one so rental isn't needed).

Tapcon surely works but is a lot more trouble than necessary altho for a
one-time deal if have the hammer-drill is undoubtedly cheaper and the
drill is more useful in the long run if don't...

$0.02, imo, ymmv, etc., etc., ...

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