Shower Knee Wall - Under Glass Attachment to Floor ?

[Happy Home]

Looking for some suggestions on how to attach / construct a 42" high knee wall to the floor that will have a glass panel on top of it to the ceiling ? This is a shower area.

Knee wall on one side attached to to stud wall, 2 x 10 joists below with Advantech sub floor. This is a remodel.

[mike maines]

Steve, in that situation I first try to talk the owners into a return leg to brace the half wall. When that doesn't work, I would add some blocking under the subfloor, and create a torsion box by screwing and gluing plywood to both sides of a 2x4 wall. Once or twice, for long walls, I have used threaded rod to cinch the wall down tight to the floor.

[MarkMc]

Why not all glass? Etch the lower if it's a privacy thing - cost is likely better. One of the more common reasons I see for folks wanting the 1/2 wall is [unspoken] fear of all that glass.

If a wall, then why? What's it's function? Take it out 2-3x width [8-12"] and make use of the shelf, the niche whatever, potential on one or both sides.

[tjbnwi]

Torsion box wall pulled tight with threaded rod here also.

Tom

[kpatrix]

Simpson htt hold downs work pretty good too. Put one at every other doubled stud and it really stiffens the wall. The taller the hold down the better. Also making notches in the subfloor to nail the studs to the joists and blocking help. Even all thread works good.

[LanellePalmer]

Torsion box wall pulled tight with threaded rod here also.

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