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How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
What method do you guys use to attach the railings on a deck with a rubber roof and sleepers? I was also wondering if anyone had any pictures of a deck done this way. Thanks for any help.
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
assuming this roof was never meant to be a deck with railings, you do not have posts going through the roof. that is how you would have been getting your strenth and support for the rails. now all your strenth must come from surface mounted rail system. hopefully you have several points of contact to the home itself. the more solid you get the perimeter sleeper system, the better off you will be. there are some teco brand 4x4 surface mounted brackets available, there strenth is questionable, i did a similar application many years ago, i had custom brackets fabricated to accept the 4x4, i also had the flange run up the 4x4 about 8'', that made a big difference, if you rabbet out the base of the 4x4, and have the bracket made to fit tight, you can then dress the 4x4 without the bracket getting in the way. welcome to the site sparky
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
I was planning on bringing up the posts from underneith for the railings but I am not sure how to seal the rubber around the 6x6 post. Is the a boot available for a 6x6 similar to the boots that are used for a round pipe?
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
I just saw one they did this way the other day. The deck was a "cap" that sat over the whole rubber roof, and hung down over on three sides, since the deck was cantileavered out of the house. The posts were bolted to the sides of the "cap" where it hung down over. Don't know if I explained that accurately enough, but that's the best way I can say what I saw.
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
I bolt the posts to the rim joist. For a little extra I dap out the 4x4 posts 1 1/2'' x the size of the rim, the post lands on the decking an 1 1/2''.
I have a pic on my site. www.deckmastersllc.com John Mon |
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To counterflash the uncured rubber, you can either kerf the post and counterflash using copper or aluminum, or box in your post, thereby covering the post and rubber. Although some say sealing tape can be used in place of uncured rubber, I've found in some cases where seaming tape was used, the rubber wasn't flexible enough and did not yield a good bond or seal. Uncured had to be used over the seaming tape. Good luck. |
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
gene,this is an upstairs project with a torch down roof and there is no rim joists. I am thinking a new job at a fast food window for you. J.
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
Since I don't know what he's doing either
(deck-on-sleepers, deck-on-joist-on-sleepers?) I guess I qualify to comment as well! ![]() ![]() It seems like Greg Di or RobertCDF had a post with some surface mount rail-post hardware not too long ago.
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
Well if it's a wood rail I would notch/bolt post to rim joist also, otherwise you could always use surface mounted iron railing.
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
If you dont have a rim joists,what is holding up the building????
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
Ok I get it,,,do not put the posts in the roof for a lot of reasons, Idea>>> use steel rail system lag the steel posts into the decking and the stringers ( not into the roof )thru the bottom caps<<< I have a local steel guy make this stuff up for me Im sure there is a local in your area. They wiggle around a little but most of the time the permit store goes for it.
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Re: How To Attach Railing To Rubber Roof?
what method do you use not to step on tar on a hot day?
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