Vinyl Deck Post Installation
Anyone who has experienced the ease and speed of installation eliminating notching of decking and tricky carpentry skills or all the hardware required for setting posts into joists knows this intimately.
Vinyl deck post installation. The rise in popularity of deck railing post anchors is no surprise. Two guys custom cut and install 31 feet of vinyl porch railings using a portable saber saw with a 10 inch blade drill and bits for square screw heads. Posts are as long as the height of the railing plus the width of the joist and the thickness of the decking minus the thickness of the rail cap. The strength of the duradek system is the method we use to weld the vinyl sheets together.
Get free shipping on qualified vinyl deck railing systems or buy online pick up in store today in the lumber composites department. The vinyl is installed with a overlapped heat welded seam which can be handled one of two ways. Bolt the post mount on to concrete or wood and then place a vinyl post sleeve over the mount. Place a vinyl post cap on the top of the post and a post skirt on the bottom for aesthetic purposes.
From below the deck place the heavy square washer over the bolts and secure it with lock washers and nuts. Using the base as a template you drill four holes in your deck. 1 a slightly raised seam where the overlap occurs or. Some vinyl railing installations need a 4 by 4 pressure treated post with a vinyl post sleeve placed over top.
I ll apologize in advan. You then put the four bolts through the holes in the base of the post and the holes you ve drilled in the deck. Concentrated loads applied in any direction or 500 lb with a safety factor of 2 5 which is the load referenced by the astm d7032 testing criteria that manufactured composite rail kits must.