Fixing Wooden Posts To Concrete Floor

First of all position your timber in place and pre drill if necessary the hole in the timber where you want the concrete anchor to go.

Fixing wooden posts to concrete floor. Personally l don t pre drill. Insert lead shields into the holes in the concrete. To attach a wood handrail post to concrete. Using a hammer drill fitted with a masonry bit predrill two 3 16 in.

Two common nail options are shown below. After you ensure the post anchors are locked into position you could proceed to installing the wooden posts. Concrete screws through metal anchor straps into the plinth and then nail the straps to the wooden post with galvanized 10d box nails. These nails are driven through a board and into concrete underneath much like nailing a wood board to a wood floor.

The easiest approach is simply to nail the wood to the concrete. The cut nail and the concrete nail. The cut nail has a square tapered shape with a square tip. Sand the bottom section with a band sander it it doesn t fit in the anchors.

Step 15 fasten the beam and post together. Deep into opposite sides of the plinth block. Mark the location of the holes in a metal post bracket on the concrete. Drill holes into the concrete that are the right diameter for lead shields using a masonry bit in a hammer drill.

You can surface mount a post that will have more than one point of support such as a post that attaches to both a concrete slab and a covered roof or a post that supports a handrail that s also attached to a house.