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    Need help building some walls

    Thanks. I ended up reading about that not too long after I posted my message to you. Thanks for confirming - it's good to her things multiple times!
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    Need help building some walls

    Thanks. I wasn't planning on adding any duct work, as ours runs through the crawlspace and there is no crawlspace under the laundry room - it's just a concrete slab, and the crawlspace stops at the wall between the laundry room and the rest of the house. I actually wasn't going to do anything...
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    Need help building some walls

    Hi. Thanks for the reply. I wasn't planning on doing any demolition at all - it never occurred to me to consider whether or not that would be necessary. I just want to cover up the curb wall and insulate the room in the process. Yes, the 2 exterior walls are above ground, roughly the same...
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    Need help building some walls

    Thanks for the reply! Correct, there's no HVAC register out there. Hopefully it will be able to equalize with the rest of the house though. Right now it is close to freezing in that room. Would you mind telling me how you would "air seal the current drywall to cinder block connection and...
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    Need help building some walls

    Thanks for the reply! It's not easy to see in the pictures but I did cut the lip just even with the curb wall. It's also not easy to see in the picture, but the lip stuck out a good 2+ inches from the curb wall so it had to go! Yeah, the romex is going to be a hassle. I'm thinking that I'll...
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    Need help building some walls

    Hi. First-time poster here. Our house has a laundry room that used to be a detached 1-car garage. At some point, a previous owner built an addition between the original house and garage to turn the two separate structures into one (the addition became an extension of the living room), and they...
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