Novice Question: Installing Porch Posts
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Novice Question: Installing Porch Posts
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New to the site and to home improvements. Our old front porch posts and rails rotted out, so I pulled them down and am looking to install vinyl in its place. I bought wood posts and am looking to install them into our front driveway/porch slab. There will be around 9 posts (each around 3 feet tall) and each will only be supporting around 4 feet of railings. I found these (https://www.strongtie.com/retrofitpo...bz_base/p/rpbz) and am thinking to put one on each side of the post (2 per post), but do you think that will be enough support or should I look at something else? It seems like everything I’m finding says they are not to be used with any loads.
New to the site and to home improvements. Our old front porch posts and rails rotted out, so I pulled them down and am looking to install vinyl in its place. I bought wood posts and am looking to install them into our front driveway/porch slab. There will be around 9 posts (each around 3 feet tall) and each will only be supporting around 4 feet of railings. I found these (https://www.strongtie.com/retrofitpo...bz_base/p/rpbz) and am thinking to put one on each side of the post (2 per post), but do you think that will be enough support or should I look at something else? It seems like everything I’m finding says they are not to be used with any loads.
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Attached is a picture of the porch I'm working with. You can see where the previous posts were bolted to the side of the steps/porch. I do not want to do this as I will be sliding vinyl covers over the wood posts and that would not work if I bolted them to the sides.
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Assuming these are just posts for a railing and they are not holding up a roof or anything, I would recommend you check out Menards premium designer image deck rail and premium posts. They are a steel post, attaches to the cement pad, the sleeve fits over that. No wood posts. And they have a matching stair rail kit for the stairs.
if you want an upgrade, look at their aluminum railings. Not as big and blocky as pvc railings.
if you want an upgrade, look at their aluminum railings. Not as big and blocky as pvc railings.