Following photos show more of the same deck. Deck has a full frontal shot of Mt. Rainier, but it was hiding behind some clouds.
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The following photos show more of the same job with the ability to enlarge them as you may need to see more detail. This is our standard stainless railing package with large 2 x 2 sanded and buffed square stainless tubing that has proven to stand up to the rigors of the loading imposed on a system by the cable tension. As you can see this system has several 90 deg. turns and we chose to stop on the one inside corner. If you look closely you can see that the threaded studs used on the end of the cable had not been trimmed yet when these photos were taken. We have not installed the gate yet where you can see the end posts and you can barely see the flathead fittings we used to allow the gate to swing clear and not bump into any protruding end fittings. By having a large inventory of fittings we can take care of these custom requests.
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You can see the untrimmed studs on the right photo. We decided to stop and start the cable on the inside corner due to number of corners on the system and did the entire deck with two runs of 10 cables stopping only at this one corner shown above. Careful planning of post placement and cable usage can save money with cable since most of the cable cost is with with the end fittings. Other vendors may try to stop and start cable at each corner and in this case would have used 100 end fittings, we used only 40 and feel strongly that the customer ends up with a much cleaner looking system which is the idea in the first place.
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Both photos above show the same corner. Photo on left shows the top corner strap and the one on the right even though a bit blurry shows the welded top post plates for attaching the wooden top rail.
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Upper left photo is where Mt. Rainier was hiding.
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Photo to the upper right is hard to see the details, but we used countersunk cable fittings in an area where a gate will be hinged so we can have a clean surface for gate swing clearance.
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The photo to the left shows the two bolt side mounted method with the post having an open bottom. Photo to right shows a nut plate on the backside of the rim joist to act as a really BIG washer under the nuts shown.
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This is the actual drawing used for layout and production. Click on photo for a larger view. It has a plan view, a section of the rim joist and the special gate hinges that are called "Take Away Hinges", meaning you can open the gate, pick up and take it easily off the hinge post as you might do if on a boat. Note: the lettering showing the more important posts so they can be discussed over the phone plus making it easier to label the cable sections for easier mfg. and installation by others on site.