Framing question in basement.

[MitchM]

Hide it Jon. (you shouldn't have had to adjust it, BTW...?) We usually bury it in a wall, 2 x 4 or 2 x 6, depending on the size of the post. One bit of advice.....the cement floor will slope up around the base of the posts, so if you're framing a wall on the ground, planning to stand it up, take that into consideration. The cement floors will vary in any case, so when I'm framing a basement, I take many measurements along where the wall is going to be - from the cement floor to the bottom of the floor joists and/or blocking, then subtract another 1/4 inch. That's the height of the wall that I build.

Mitch