Metal plate for securing round post to flat patio slabs

[Bert Coules]

I'm looking for a neat way of screwing down a series of round wooden posts (probably 90mm diameter, though that could be changed) onto a flat patio. I know that Metposts make a square securing gizmo (hollow tube and flat base plate) but as far as I can see neither they nor anyone else do the same thing in a circular fitting.

Does anyone know of something suitable? Many thanks.

Bert

[The Medway Handyman]

Scaffold tubes have 'feet' to protect the ground, may be you could modify something like that?

[Bert Coules]

Nice idea, thanks.

Bert

[damduck-egg]

Bollards, I have seen such a thing holding up removable bollard posts. A quick google finds something like this pictured near bottom of page.

expect there are others. Another search term would be court sockets as some tennis nets are supported by something similar. Can't see any being as cheap as the ordinary metpost type though. Sometimes it is just as inexpensive to go to a small fabrication shop of the type that is found on industrial estates everywhere and get them to make someting to your exact spec, especially for a relatively simple item such as what you want.

G.Harman

[Bert Coules]

Thanks for the link. That short round fitting is exactly what I had in mind.

Yes, that's something that's occured to me.

Bert

[NT]

It might be cheaper to sink 4 ss threaded rods into the slab and put the post onto them, fixed all round with resin.

A welder would make producing the brackets easy.

NT

[Onetap]

Kee-Klamps, like scaffold tube fittings, but available in smaller tube sizes as well. Drilling a paving slab will probably cause it to crack. ISTR that various roof edge-protection schemes on flat roofs had the tube fitting secured into a concrete block that rested on a paving slab.

[Bert Coules]

Thanks for that. I've found them online at

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Bert

[Bert Coules]

Searching around, that does seem to be a recommended method; thanks.

I'm grateful to you and everyone else who answered.

Bert