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Steel Pipe Guardrail and Handrail Details

Materials

Concrete Steel Masonry / CMU

Elements

Columns Walls Retaining Walls Stairs Railings / Guards Floors / Slabs Drainage Connections / Plates

Connections

HSS Connection Welded Connection

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One-and-a-half-inch outside diameter schedule forty steel pipe guardrails and handrails are continuously welded to main vertical pipe supports spaced at a maximum of five feet on center. Exterior main vertical pipes feature quarter-inch diameter vent and weep holes, with grout sloped away from the post at concrete slabs and retaining walls. Posts are anchored into preset steel sleeves or core-drilled holes set in non-shrink grout one inch larger than the pipe size. Stair configurations include half-inch diameter baluster rods at four inches on center maximum welded top and bottom to steel pipes, supported by a tube steel stringer and welded plate tread.

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