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Those posts look like they are just held in place with 4 deck screws going directly into the floor (roof of porch below?). With the leverage of an average person (0.5T) leaning on the railing or god forbid a whole Tomlinson (1T), I am pretty sure that either the screws would get ripped out of the floor or the screw heads would tear out the thin painted steel that is the post base. I am not even sure if the screws go into something structural below the decking.
The fact that the floor is slanted makes me believe it is actually the roof of the porch below and is not intended to be stood on or have point loads like chairs. I have not seen the house from the outside so I cannot be sure.
Does anyone have a photo of the railing from the street before or after the addition?
Wrong again internet friend child. I intentionally left out the L for humorous pig pun purposes. Perhaps the joke wasn't delivered well enough. I will enjoy prison.
The images are blurry for some reason so here is the hardware holding the posts at a higher resolution and zoomed in.
Looks like galvanized lag bolts (with washers, classy!) going directly into the (plastic?) decking and whatever is below them. The metal brackets look about 1/8" thick which is thicker than the paper thin steel I assumed from earlier photos.
Coated (Chromate/passivated?) outdoor rated Hex/Torx screws hold the vertical posts in the bracket and look fine to my eye. On the second image there looks like there is a slight shadow between the top of the bracket and the post so the post might be too small, but this is hard to confirm. I find the small supporting bar at the bottom funny for some reason, it looks out of place but is probably needed if someone weighing 1TSU (Tomlinson Standard Unit) leans on it
I am not a contractor so I do not know how up to code or safe that structure actually is, but it looks a tad bit too sketchy for my tastes.
Clearly this is out of code and dangerous. If he had to sell the hovel this would likely become an expensive problem. The spacing should be no more than 4 3/8ths in. between the floor and the side railing. This is to prevent small children from being able to crawl underneath and fall to their death/dismemberment. Do you think blunt physical trauma affects the taste of niggeroni?
I am going to take the point that this isn't THAT bad AS LONG AS 1. There is no static load more than one skinny human and 2. There are NO planters at all. The handrails are functional and high enough. He chose to make level handrails instead of sloped handrails which is fine. The floor boards follow the slope for drainage which is fine. BUT HE DID NOT UPGRADE THE LOAD CAPACITY with substructure improvements!!!! If he ever decided to put planters up there AND have more than one person stand up there he could very well collapse it and die. This kind of "Upgrade" genuinely is a killer for that once a decade time where somebody has a house party and puts everybody on the deck to watch fireworks or something.
This kind of "Upgrade" genuinely is a killer for that once a decade time where somebody has a house party and puts everybody on the deck to watch fireworks or something.
I know why the posts that meet the house at a different height than the front rail, because it's more than 5° of pitch. We covered that. But why the blue bloody fuck are they different heights FROM EACH OTHER?!
