icanshootwell
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- Ross-on-wye
Can anybody recommend a supplier for these bolt down brackets, I am building a car port and want to fix on top of concrete as it,s a lot less mess and quicker. 8" square in old money.
Wooden Post, bolt down brackets 200mmx200mm
- Thread starter icanshootwell
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
These any good to you?
icanshootwell
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- Ross-on-wye
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
Keep the timbers of the ground and use adjustable bases similar to these
icanshootwell
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- Ross-on-wye
What size is that and who sells them?Keep the timbers of the ground and use adjustable bases similar to these
carpenter1
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- devon
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
As soon as timber comes into contact with concrete ,,it becomes firewood ,if you dig it in you create a sump hole and the post rots of in a few years or less with the state of some of the timber nowadays,,if its sat on top ,it will act like sponge and draw moisture back up ,again leading to premature rot .
Either with fixed height bases or the adjustable type ,water can run of and not pool around them .
Either with fixed height bases or the adjustable type ,water can run of and not pool around them .
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- Scottish Highlands
I've seen a timber barn with the uprights secured with two pieces of railway line, either side of the post with bolts through, and set in concrete bases, that must have been up at least 50 years.
Get a metal workshop to make up bases from fairly substantial steel plate, that should last as long as galvanized and cost no more than something bought in ready made.
Get a metal workshop to make up bases from fairly substantial steel plate, that should last as long as galvanized and cost no more than something bought in ready made.
Willie adie
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- Aberdeenshire
My late step father put up a Dutch barn using old railway track for uprights back in the 70s Still perfect today
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- Scottish Highlands
I think the Timber Research And Development Association in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Food for Scotland (DAFFS) produced a small booklet for farmers and crofters on the erection of farm buildings in the 1970s. That gave recommendations on the dimensions and construction for self build timber buildings for farmers. That was one of the recommended ways for supporting the uprights. A very useful little booklet that seems to have got lost along the way.
Just done a Google and TRADA still exists, so maybe that booklet does too.
TRADA | Timber Research and Development Association
We are dedicated to inspiring and informing best practice timber design, timber specification and use of wood in the built environment and related fields.
www.trada.co.uk
Willie adie
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- Aberdeenshire
We had the old railway building from Balmedie Station closed by beaching all the rafters were creosote and still look exactly as good today.I think the Timber Research And Development Association in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Food for Scotland (DAFFS) produced a small booklet for farmers and crofters on the erection of farm buildings in the 1970s. That gave recommendations on the dimensions and construction for self build timber buildings for farmers. That was one of the recommended ways for supporting the uprights. A very useful little booklet that seems to have got lost along the way.
Just done a Google and TRADA still exists, so maybe that booklet does too.
TRADA | Timber Research and Development Association
We are dedicated to inspiring and informing best practice timber design, timber specification and use of wood in the built environment and related fields.
- Location
- Leicestershire
That's what you need.
- Location
- East Sussex
That's what you need.
they look a smart idea for the job.
maybe build a brick plinth around it to smarten the finish?