[TheForge] Setting Railing Posts

[G. Watts]

Bill,
  4" embedment seems pretty typical for the 1 1/2" rail that we do quite
often, though I've had to go as deep as 12" on a school job where the rail
sat on a 6" curb and the engineer wanted the stress down in the beef of the
slab.  Usually go with 3" holes so that there's some room for adjustment
(also works for larger doubled plate with a gap between posts like a tuning
fork shape).  I use whatever the fabricator supplies...Rockit, Pour-Rock,
etc.  Given the choice, I like to leave the Pour-Rock 1/2-3/4" low and
finish slightly crowned with a fairly dry topping mix, packed in tightly-
seems to resist weathering better than the pourable stuff and matches the
native concrete color better as well.

George.


Union Ironworker
Local 229, San Diego
Metro Iron Works


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Reposting this, anybody?



Woolley wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> For anyone setting railings in concrete, brick, stone etc., how deep
> are you setting your railing posts?  I have been setting mine 4" deep
> but I was just wondering what others were doing. I use hydraulic
> cement,  a 2" core drill for 1" posts, but have recently considered
> buying a carbide tipped 1 1/2" for this.  What are you guys using?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Woolley
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