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.
Vinyl deck post installation.
Some vinyl railing installations need a 4 by 4 pressure treated post with a vinyl post sleeve placed over top.
Using the base as a template you drill four holes in your deck.
When installing a post on a concrete patio or wood deck you will need a post mount.
From below the deck place the heavy square washer over the bolts and secure it with lock washers and nuts.
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.
Place a vinyl post cap on the top of the post and a post skirt on the bottom for aesthetic purposes.
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.
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 strength of the duradek system is the method we use to weld the vinyl sheets together.
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.
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You then put the four bolts through the holes in the base of the post and the holes you ve drilled in the deck.
1 a slightly raised seam where the overlap occurs or.