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Does your upcoming project require you to attach a piece of lumber to a concrete floor or concrete wall? Not sure how to do it? Here is a very easy method for attaching that wood to concrete without using all those concrete anchors.
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Predrilled Fasteners. There is a family of fasteners that can be driven into a predrilled hole. These not only fasten wood to concrete, but will fasten just about anything else to concrete as well.
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If the concrete's been there a while, it might take a bigger load. (Too small and it won't go all the way in, too large and it goes too far through the wood.); Good luck! Regards, -k2 in CO ; Moderator, Miscellaneous Forum; ... Home > Ask a Question > BBS > Masonry and Stone > "attaching wood to concrete"....;
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Home > Ask a Question > BBS > Masonry and Stone > attaching wood to concrete; ... You'll want to use a pressure treated wood everywhere that will be making direct contact with the concrete, and all the new available pressure treated woods will corrode most fasteners very quickly. i don't know that they make a hardened nail...
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I want to replace the current wrought iron railing with wood railing on our front porch. My questions is how do you secure the wood railing to the concrete porch? Answer; Hi Rebecca, ... ; You are here: Experts > Industry > Construction Industry > Building Homes or Extensions > attaching wood railing to concrete porch;
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A metal element for holding the wood wall frame members to the concrete building foundation to resist uplift and overturning forces due to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and other forces destructive to wood frame buildings.
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Believe it or not, it's sometimes easier to drill a hole in concrete than in wood. A misconception is that concrete is difficult, if not impossible, to work with. This is unfortunate because otherwise-easy tasks are shunned by many because they think working with concrete will be too hard.
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What is the recommended approach to installing planks directly onto concrete? From my research on the web, it is recommended that I go with composite planks instead of wood due to rotting issues associated with attaching wood directly to concrete.
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Some homeowners attach furring strips (1-by-3 lengths of wood) to the concrete foundation walls and then attach drywall to that. That's the hard way. The easier way is to build a 2-by-4 stud wall on the basement floor and then raise it into place.
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