Railing Installation Tip of the Day
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When working with welded flanges it is often difficult to deal with
extreme slopes or grades that will tend to throw the posts and pickets
way out of plumb.
What to do:
- Send back posts or order more that have a biased cut to accommodate the angle...
- Use rebar and forms and make a small, but level pad extension...
- Use shims under the low side and level the posts, but have to deal
with exposed shims and a flange that is not completely secure...
None of these are Great Solutions, but look below-
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By using a composite masonry blade and a cold chisel,one can modify the concrete under the flange, then the flanges
can become recessed into the slab. This will allow for grade fine
tuning and actually strengthen the post-flange-substrate connection.
There may be better solutions out there, but if you have one - I would really like to know.
Just sharing this Tip to help you if you ever run across this in the field and need to get the job done.
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Hopefully,
Most of you dealers will learn to interpret grade ahead of time. This
customer near San Francisco was told to use an inclinometer app for his
smart phone, but he did not want to spend the 99 cents.
So instead he ended up paying a crew several hundred dollars to help
him deal with the grade by modifying the concrete under the flanges.
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