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Vinyl deck post installation.
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.
Set up a jig that allows you to cut all the posts to the correct length.
Bolt the post mount on to concrete or wood and then place a vinyl post sleeve over the mount.
The rise in popularity of deck railing post anchors is no surprise.
You then put the four bolts through the holes in the base of the post and the holes you ve drilled in the deck.
Some vinyl railing installations need a 4 by 4 pressure treated post with a vinyl post sleeve placed over top.
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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.
Most rail installation instructions are vague on these details but the strength of any rail system is dependent on posts that can withstand 200 lb.
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.
Place a vinyl post cap on the top of the post and a post skirt on the bottom for aesthetic purposes.
Using the base as a template you drill four holes in your deck.
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.
The vinyl is installed with a overlapped heat welded seam which can be handled one of two ways.
From below the deck place the heavy square washer over the bolts and secure it with lock washers and nuts.