Block wall / Discussions

...walls and drywall are not sitting on concrete but they are raised up on small EPS blocks.  Since you have no sump pump, any flooding will saturate your framing. However, if the walls and drywall raised up on foam blocks it gives you a little wiggle room if for any reason there is ever an inch of so of water in the base...

...wall, along with you saying you weren’t going to seal the wall. If you have a waterproof membrane against the block wall then there is no reason you can’t put the stud wall right against it rather than leaving an airspace. The point being, if you leave an airspace and the wall is not sealed, sounds to me there is a cha...

...wall on interior basement wall and eventually refinish the interior walls of the basement in a different manner to rectifiy this problem longterm? Insulating a cinder block (or CMU) foundation wall from the inside in cold climates is risky as it can cause cracking. A cinder block foundation wall is not as strong as pou...