Posted by dpendzic on November 06, 2013 at 13:14:42 from (24.184.14.235):
In Reply to: Concrete block wall posted by Brad Buchanan on November 06, 2013 at 06:56:43:
I have built 4 block foundations on houses i have built, I set the first course on the wet footing or slab and have never uses dowels to the footing or slab. If the wall is going to sustain horizontal loads such as earth fill you will need to reinforce the wall vertically at a spacing close to the height of the wall. If its just an interior wall you should be fine without reinforcing,If its on a hardened floor a layer of mortar under the first course will be needed.Build your ends/corners first up to half the wall height keeping it plumb and stepping the blocks back to the end. you now have half a block showing for each course and you can string a line from one end to the other, set each row of blocks on a mortar bed (i like 3/8 ")with the top at the line and make level the perpendicular dimension.
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