Joe Bobst wrote in message
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There may be other solutions

Given this problem, I'd frame in a an appropriately sized trough, lay out the
mud pan and hoe, hop in the ol' pickup and get a bunch of WhoopeeCrete and a
case of vintage brew and call my buddies to spend a happy Saturday, mixing,
pouring and smoothing. With the pour complete, shove the anchor bolts in their
proper location and after curing start your wall. You already know about
square, plumb and level, right? And adding the magic bonding agents to the
concrete, and cleaning the old slab first? HTH

Joe


Heh... you have a way with imagery

I thought of pouring a base instead of laying blocks. It's just that I'm not
convinced that the framing involved wouldn't be more work. In either case you
wind up with primarily the weight of the concrete or block being that which
holds it in place to the slab (even with bonding agents the WEIGHT of the base
is primarily that which holds it there). Indeed, the anchor bolts would be easy
to place in a pour such as that.

As for smoothing - heh! Who cares! It just needs to be formed well enough to
hold the base plate on top, accept stucco on one side and drywall on the other.

Just so you know the scope of the project, we're talking about merely 34 lf of
wall, 12' of which will be occupied by sliding glass doors - so there will only
be about 22 lf of wall for which I need a base. Seems blocks would be the
easier solution that setting up plywood formwork and having to get the needed
stakes and bracing.