Attaching Railing To Flat Roof

Drop the level of the new ledger enough to allow at least a 2 in.

Attaching railing to flat roof.

Gap between the bottom of any doors and the top of the deck boards. Place a manufactured metal post flat on the roof at each mark. The first section that attaches at a wall has base plates at the outer ends of the railing. Now all your strenth must come from surface mounted rail system.

The screws or lags should be as long as possible without protruding from the bottom of the sleepers and putting holes in the roof membrane. Hopefully you have several points of contact to the home itself. Measure the size of the metal. Include a corner post that has tabs at adjacent sides for attaching the handrail at each corner.

To properly attach a deck ledger follow these guidelines. Dont let someone just bolt through the flat roof. Railings depending on complexity and materials typically cost between 150 and 1 000 per linear foot. The more solid you get the perimeter sleeper system the better off you will.

Epdm or any type of flat roof necessary to build up. The victorian era saw not only the in troduction of iron railings but also the. Assuming this roof was never meant to be a deck with railings you do not have posts going through the roof. Build up pads to mount the blocking properly.

That way water and snow melt won t be able to accumulate and seep under doorsills to ruin interior floors and storm doors will swing past ice snow. That is how you would have been getting your strenth and support for the rails.