Concrete – How to install a new internal nonbearing concrete block wall in basement to partition off for bathroom

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house is built of concrete blocks, so basement floor is poured concrete and ceiling also. Want to know how to secure wall being built to ceiling and not having wall collapse

Best Answer

Load bearing or not, a concrete block wall needs a footing beyond what your questionably thick slab is.

That is why it might fall down, aside from not using tie-ins. AFAIK, you shouldn't have to tie-in at the ceiling, just to the side walls. I'd hope any professional would be talking about (a) pouring a footing (b) drilling holes everywhere for rebar and (c) making pockets for tie-ins. But it's a bathroom; not a vault. No one does this if they can just frame out the wall with lumber.

Ad hoc masonry must be tied-in to the existing structure:

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