Installing Vinyl Railing On Concrete

Bolt the post mount on to concrete or wood and then place a vinyl post sleeve over the mount.

Installing vinyl railing on concrete.

Plan the location of the fence carefully and you ll avoid costly mistakes that might be difficult to undo. Some vinyl railing installations need a 4 by 4 pressure treated post with a vinyl post sleeve placed over top. Set the base plate under the post. Concrete that holds the posts needs time to harden before the installation can be finished.

Railings is a structural steel post that can be mounted on wood or concrete in lieu of using a pressure treated post. Installing a vinyl fence. When installing a post on a concrete patio or wood deck you will need a post mount. The fence gradually steps up the slope so that each bay section is.

Plan your fence and follow the rules photo 1. Otherwise stop filling the holes with concrete about 4 in. When installing a fence on an existing concrete pad some fence installers prefer to core drill through the concrete and set posts the traditional way embedded in concrete underground. To install a vinyl fence start by using a power auger or a post hole digger to dig the holes for your fence posts.

Light weight design makes installation fast and easy. Step 4 attach your porch railing to a concrete floor. Below grade and pack in soil on top of the wet concrete. Although few do it yourselfers relish the prospect of a weekend spent mixing hundreds of pounds of concrete and digging numerous post holes most can handle a vinyl fence installation.

Make sure that the holes are 10 inches in diameter and deep enough to hold the length of your post plus 6 inches for a layer of gravel. Stretch a string line tightly along the proposed fence run locate the corner posts and dig 3 ft deep postholes. Attach the first post to the house wall with the mounting brackets one near the top rail and one just above the baluster rail baseline. Lay out the fence.

Plumb the posts and. Using a rented core drill you can drill a hole through your concrete slab for each fence post.