How to nail Wood To Concrete
How to attach wood to a concrete floor IN SECONDS! How to attach 2x4 wood to concrete floor fast!
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now maybe you're thinking about redoing
your basement maybe you're gonna put up
a couple rooms you're gonna throw a
bathroom maybe a living area maybe an
office
i mean do what you want it's your house
not my business that's what i'm doing in
my basement i am building a youtube
studio where i can record and do all
kinds of things and not have to worry
about noise i want my own
area now this is all pretty easy if you
have an idea of how to frame the problem
is how do i secure the wood
to the concrete floor well there's a
couple different ways of doing it the
first method is
tap cons me personally i'm not a big fan
of tap cons
if you don't drill down far enough well
they're sticking out and you have to
have a special impact type drill
or rotary hammer to install them and not
to mention they take too damn long
don't get me wrong they work but if you
don't want to go on spending money on a
rotary hammer or
your impact drill well this is an easier
method and
way quicker so what we have here is
called a ram set
if you're professional you have already
heard of them and you probably
definitely use
them the one thing about this tool is
not only does it make it super quick to
do the work but it is really fun to use
all right so let me show you how this
thing works all right so you got your
studs put up
you know your wall was built now you got
to secure it to the concrete
concrete is pretty damn hard so instead
of sitting there drilling for an hour
and a half we're gonna use our ram set
again it is super fun to use and it is
super
super quick now what i usually do is
tack the wall with one nail
and then level it out and then i use my
ram set oh yeah there's two other things
you need
safety glasses and hearing protection
because this is loud
all right now here's the version of the
ram set that i bought i'll leave a link
in the description below but there's
other versions of this
some are a little bit more ergonomically
correct but for the price
this one worked for me so i got this and
i need two other things now the second
thing i need are my fasteners
this is the ram set brand it attaches
two by fours to concrete you can see it
right there i got the two and a half
inch long because i really wanted to
make sure that i got some depth
when i drove these into the concrete now
what's cool about this is basically now
but it's really hard
you got this little rubber piece up here
which i'll show you what that does here
in a bit
but basically all they are are nails
they're also super cheap and only ran me
a few dollars
now because we're going into concrete
we're gonna use the 22 calories a bunch
of different cartridges
out there on the market let me show you
a couple it's actually really simple to
pick out the shot that you need it's
color coded so for example
we're going into solid concrete so i'm
going to use the 22
yellow if i want to go into just
concrete block which is not as hard i
would go with a green
or mortar joint i would go with a brown
if i needed something more powerful i
could go with a red
or a purple so these have a hundred
shots it only ran
like four bucks for this entire box and
you really do get a lot for your money
i only paid a few dollars for this
entire box you get 100 shot
and that's what's cool about the ram set
you don't spend a lot of money for the
fasteners
or the shot so let me show you how this
is used dude
what we're going to do is we're going to
open this up right here like so
we're going to take one of our fasteners
or our nails put it in
like so now this rubber piece right here
is going to allow it to set in
and it won't go anywhere now we need our
22 caliber shelf
you can see in the box there's a lot of
them and trust me these will go a
very long way now you can see it looks
just like a shell
22 cow shell but really all there is is
powder in there
when i open this up like so you can see
there's a place to put this shell
so we're going to put this in like so if
it doesn't go all the way in
just bring this barrel back a little bit
push in
and it's ready to go close it up
all right so you can see that this is
spring loaded check this out
now when i push down on this it is ready
to fire
your trigger is right here and this is
your padded handle you're going to place
your palm on here because it's going to
want to jump
all right here we go check this out i'm
going to push down
i'm gonna hold on to this padded top i'm
gonna squeeze the trigger
now what's cool is i have to remove this
casing just open it up
and it pops out you can see that smoke
and that's your spent
right there now check this out that nail
is driven perfectly down through that
2x4 stud
and into the concrete and it's not going
anywhere and not only does that seal
help prevent that fastener from falling
out of the ramp set before you fire it
it also keeps the nail from getting
loose up on top
and not only that the damn thing is
solid it's hell it will not go
anywhere and that's real nice lag and
another cool thing is you can get into
some
really tight areas with this i'll tell
you i wish i would have bought this
years ago i always wanted one
i was just too lazy to go up and get it
or maybe too cheap but
it's just awesome but now if you're a
diyer and you have a limited budget
maybe you want to do it yourself you
don't want to hire a professional but
you still don't want to spend
100 or 200 on a specialized tool plus
the drill bits and then the fasteners
i think the ramps that's the way to go
now if you're a professional and you
already have the rotary hammers and the
impact drills well that's fine you can
use
tap cons but if you're on a limited
budget you want to do it yourself you
want to fasten
the two-by-fours to the concrete i'm
telling you the ram set is the way to go
i really wish i would have bought one of
these years ago i pulled the trigger
literally and got one and i could not be
happier with the way it works now
now however i do want to let you know
this the damn thing is loud sounds like
a 22 going off so you're definitely
going to need hearing protection
and it does have some recoil even though
you have this rubber top up here when
you pull that trigger you're going to
feel it going up against your palm so i
would say
maybe wear some gloves as well my new
favorite tool
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