Fixing Wooden Posts To Concrete Floor

If you have a rotary hammer drill it is quite capable of drill through timber pine framing using a masonry drill bit.

Fixing wooden posts to concrete floor.

Step 15 fasten the beam and post together. Using a hammer drill fitted with a masonry bit predrill two 3 16 in. Concrete screws through metal anchor straps into the plinth and then nail the straps to the wooden post with galvanized 10d box nails. The easiest approach is simply to nail the wood to the concrete.

The cut nail and the concrete nail. Personally l don t pre drill. Consequently in order to anchor a post to concrete you need to paint its bottom section with wood primer as to make sure it will resist against moisture. Two common nail options are shown below.

Mark the location of the holes in a metal post bracket on the concrete. These nails are driven through a board and into concrete underneath much like nailing a wood board to a wood floor. Post bases typically made from metal attach directly to the surface of the concrete. 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.

Sand the bottom section with a band sander it it doesn t fit in the anchors. 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. The cut nail has a square tapered shape with a square tip. To attach a wood handrail post to concrete.

Insert lead shields into the holes in the concrete.