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   rez | Dec 13, 2006 09:08pm | #1

   Greetings cobble,

   This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.

   Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.

   Cheers

    

    
   damn, am I fat!

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   dovetail97128 | Dec 13, 2006 09:13pm | #2

   Do you have open access to the framing or is the ceiling applied already? Makes a difference in my approach .

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   cobbleboy | Dec 14, 2006 11:47am | #6

   Yes, I do have access to the framing underneath the floor.  I know that there a a variety of products on the market for this task, but I was wondering what the personal preferences of people were and why.  I guess that i am little chicken sh@# at drilling into my new floor that I have spent so miuch time and money into.  Thanks joel

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   IMERC | Dec 13, 2006 10:28pm | #3

   4Js post mounting system...

   http://www.coniferproducts.com

    

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   cobbleboy | Dec 14, 2006 11:54am | #7

   The only thing I saw on the web site was for solid newels.  This will be be for box newels.  Joel

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   cobbleboy | Dec 14, 2006 12:00pm | #8

   Has any body used this http://www.stairparts.net/box-posts.htm  per chance?  And has anybody used their products?  Thanks joel

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   Snort | Dec 14, 2006 04:35pm | #9

   Haven't used the EZ Mount (Dino's cousin ya think?), but I've made similar. It's pretty easy.Since you can get to the framing from underneath, the job is way easier. If you can you can notch the post around the double joists (I'm assuming here), you make the newel rock solid, and with no visible fasteners.Timber Loc makes a great lag screw for for this. Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"

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   dovetail97128 | Dec 14, 2006 07:22pm | #11

   If you are referring to the box newel fastening block , no . But it sure looks like it would work as well as anything I have done.
   I make a block like what you showed and run an "all thread" thru it and the joists below , glue the bottom of the block and tighten the "all thread". The premade block eliminates vertical alignment problems with the joist below. I like it.

   Edited 12/14/2006 11:23 am ET by dovetail97128

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   IMERC | Dec 14, 2006 06:06pm | #10

   kinda pick and choose depending on yur finale  

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   Tomrocks21212 | Dec 14, 2006 02:39am | #4

   The last one I did with a hollow boxed newel, I built another box out of 1x that just slipped inside it. The inner box passes through a square hole in the floor and is attached to the framing below.

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   DougU | Dec 14, 2006 04:07am | #5

   I did a box newel lately that was 8" X 8", located in the basememt on concrete.

   I tapconed a piece of 2 X material that just fit into the newel, PL'd the hell out of it and sliped the newel in place/over it and screwed it down around the perimiter. Screws will be covered by base that get wraped around it.

   One other thing I forgot to mention was that I wedged a 2 X 4 vertical above the newel in order to apply presure,  this insured a tight fit when I screwed it to the pad. Solid as a rock!

   I've used the thing-a-majigs that IMERC showed you in an earlier post and they work fine too.

   Doug