I have a question about framing an interior wall.
The way I have seen it done, you have the bottom plate and top plate and studs in between, and the bottom plate to be PT since it's resting on concrete slab. The drywall goes on top.
However, I recently demoed part of my house, and I had to extend existing walls and build new walls. I did not notice it at the time, but today I realized that the original construction had nailed furring strips (seems to be 3/4" x 3") to the bottom plate on both sides. See the picture below:
Is there any advantage of doing it this way? I would think the baseboards will attach better?
I was going to frame the new walls differently, but seeing now how they did it I think I have no choice but to do the same, or else my drywall will not touch the ceiling, and I have to buy drywall sheets that match the thickness of that strip.
Always running into surprises.
MC