I was almost ready to start my bench work and was looking at starting on my flat wall (no doors and windows).
I got out my stud finder and can find almost no nails. How did they build this wall?
I am in a finished daylight basement. The wall is concrete and holds back the dirt that is also under the garage. I probed with a nail where I had found a nail in the Sheetrock and found that the Sheetrock is about 1/2 inch thick. Next I probed with a nail about three inches to the left and missed the board. The nail when in 1.5 inches before it hit the concrete wall.
This is not what I was hoping for. My plan has been to build a system as depicted in "Model Railroad Benchwork" page 22 "mounting you layout to the wall".
My guess at this point is that the wall of sheet rock is just glued on to make the room looked finished. The Sheetrock is probably glued to 1x2 that are glued to the concrete. The may have put in a concreate bolt at some points, but I can't many places that the stud finder will pick up on.
Now the question becomes, can I mount to the walls some how or do I need to build the bench free standing. I was hoping to be able to slide a work desk under the bench when not in use. Also I want to do multilevel and didn't want supports on the front side of the lower bench supporting the upper bench.
Any ideas?
Kent
I got out my stud finder and can find almost no nails. How did they build this wall?
I am in a finished daylight basement. The wall is concrete and holds back the dirt that is also under the garage. I probed with a nail where I had found a nail in the Sheetrock and found that the Sheetrock is about 1/2 inch thick. Next I probed with a nail about three inches to the left and missed the board. The nail when in 1.5 inches before it hit the concrete wall.
This is not what I was hoping for. My plan has been to build a system as depicted in "Model Railroad Benchwork" page 22 "mounting you layout to the wall".
My guess at this point is that the wall of sheet rock is just glued on to make the room looked finished. The Sheetrock is probably glued to 1x2 that are glued to the concrete. The may have put in a concreate bolt at some points, but I can't many places that the stud finder will pick up on.
Now the question becomes, can I mount to the walls some how or do I need to build the bench free standing. I was hoping to be able to slide a work desk under the bench when not in use. Also I want to do multilevel and didn't want supports on the front side of the lower bench supporting the upper bench.
Any ideas?
Kent