Timeline for Balancing needed bending strength of a wood railing post in concrete with the lifespan due to rot
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| Jun 27, 2023 at 3:36 | vote | accept | WestCoastProjects | ||
| Jul 20, 2022 at 18:31 | comment | added | WestCoastProjects | Apparently the concrete holds in moisture and the wooden posts do not like it. I'm just reporting what I read since I wonder the same thing | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 15:54 | comment | added | Vikki | Out of curiosity, why would embedding the post in concrete make it rot? (If anything, I'd expect the concrete to help preserve the post, due to its extremely-high pH.) | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 4:56 | comment | added | whatsisname | Attachment of the bracket to concrete is the easy part, whether you use J-bolts or expanding sleeves or whatever makes hardly any difference. The most challenging aspect is affixing the wood to the bracket. A wood railing post will easily get ripped out of e.g. a Simpson ABA44Z if that is the only means of affixing it, even if the bracket is perfectly rigidly attached to the concrete. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 22:14 | history | edited | WestCoastProjects | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 18:01 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Why not Edit the OQ to include that request… or would you rather treat SE as a substitute for a search engine? | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 17:57 | comment | added | WestCoastProjects | @RobbieGoodwin Noone said it is not. Do you have specific info/recommendations about the preservatives? I've seen "mixed reviews" on supplementing pressure treated external ground exposure rated posts with additional protectants: some say to do so in the ground/concrete portions. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 17:50 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | How is the lifespan due to rot not dependant on how much (gloop) the wood was soaked in? | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 18:00 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/1549091659219996673 | ||
| Jul 18, 2022 at 14:43 | comment | added | WestCoastProjects | @brhans The terminology [/confusion?] is mine not the contractor. He described the forces but did not use the term "shear". Apparently "bending" is correct - glad to be corrected here. | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 14:41 | comment | added | brhans | Your tradesman is confused. Pushing and pulling on the top of a railing does not impose significant sheer force on the at the bottom end of the post. It's a bending force you see there. Sheer is what you would see if you sat down on the deck and push directly against the bottom of the post where it meets the deck - and you'll never apply much force that way. | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 14:17 | answer | added | SQB | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 13:31 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 18, 2022 at 11:58 | answer | added | Triplefault | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 10:37 | comment | added | crip659 | Wood will rot if not maintain. Well maintain/protected wood will last for years. A post/pin in the centre of piece of will reduce the shear strength quite a bit compared to the full section of the wood. Most safety concerns are not what you will do, but what a drunken idiot will do on your land. | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 5:55 | answer | added | WestCoastProjects | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 5:21 | history | asked | WestCoastProjects | CC BY-SA 4.0 |