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Fixing railway sleepers onto a level concrete bed
Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.46 PM
Hello, What's the best way to fix railway sleepers onto a concrete bed (using nails, screws or adhesive etc?)? The sleepers are being used to make a raise planting bed on the concrete. The sleepers will only be 2-3 rows high. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks Nick
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Charlie Horsfall
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Hi. Best bet is ‘L’ shaped brackets. Two per sleeper, screwed into concrete and into sleeper 👍
Answered8 March 2022
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Pete Bowley Landscapes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Hi, if the beds are a full sleeper length-2.4m and maybe 60cm wide then I really wouldn't bother screwing them down once they're filled with soil the bed will weigh around 2 tonne and isn't going anywhere!
Smaller beds, Maybe a 90cm cube will still weigh a tonne and will be hard to move, but if you've definitely really got to absolutely fix them to the floor I'd use 150 or 120mm torx frame screws drilled through the timber on the angle into the concrete- you will need to pre drill the concrete.
Answered12 March 2022
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Anonymous user
I would use tapcon screws to fix the sleeper to the ground then everyone above with the same screws
Answered9 March 2022
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Kernow landscaping
Rating: 4.9 out of 5
Stick lengths of threaded bar in the concrete at 800mm or so intervals, plumb with a spirit level as the concrete goes down, then cut to length once cured, drill the sleepers and countersink the hole first with an 1 1/2" or 2inch spade bit then slide them over the rods and use a nut and washer to tighten up.
Answered22 March 2022
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