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Originally Posted by S-F
Looks familiar!
Two words of advice:
Fire a LOT of tapcons into those bottom plates. All over the place. Put a couple hundred or so in. Or use a powder nailer. Usually people put the bottom plates on the slab and run the foam up to it. I didn't do this and it was the biggest mistake I made. I lost most of the remainder of my hair trying to figure out how to keep the damn floor from buckling. I ended up having to cut some breather room in the subfloor so it could move.
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Can you elaborate a bit more on why the floor buckled? I am doing a similar job in my basement, but my floor is going to be a HDPE dimpled membrane (delta floor), then 1" SM XPS, and then I was going to build the walls, then sub-floor. I'm wondering if I'm going to be having any problems here.