In this video I give advice to Gareth, from Ottawa, who is wondering how to anchor the partition walls in a basement he’s renovating. He wants to know if he should put the partition walls on top of a dimpled sub-floor or whether he should put them directly onto the concrete floor and then build the sub-floor up to them.
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