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Titan Wood Post Anchor

Question from City of Barrie

 I am a Plans Examiner for the City of Barrie and I have a homeowner that wants to use the Titan Post Anchors. Do you have any testing that is stamped by an Engineer of Ontario?

Reply from Richard Bergman

Thank you Robert for your message.  In early December we successfully completed very extensive engineering testing for compliance with guard rails according to both the Ontario and Canadian building codes for our 4×4 post anchor up to 42″.   Intertek has a world class cadre of engineers and the report is being drafted right now.  This should be available some time early in the new year.  It will include maximum spacing, joist blocking, fastener and other specific configuration related details.  I trust it will satisfy all areas of interest.

Reply from City of Barrie

Thanks for the quick reply. It appears like it will satisfy what we require before we will approve the use of the product in the City of Barrie. I am sending a blind copy of this reply to the homeowner so that he is aware that it should be approved in the near future. I look forward to receiving the report when it is ready for our review.

General Info

To date thousands of the Titan Post Anchors have been installed both in Canada and the United States with great success and positive feedback from customers. Titan continues to expand its testing with all its products to continually satisfy the building code requirements in both Canada and the United States. The Titan Post Anchor is one of the strongest and safest post anchors on the marketplace today.

Were to Buy

Titan Post Anchors are distributed in Canada through Otter Creek and product can be purchased online at the companies store by visiting www.myocstore.com

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Good morning Gentlemen,

Thanks for including me on this.  I appreciate direct feedback from customers as they are my marching orders and guide me as my product line develops.

My site is being completely revamped now that I have a full time web master working beside daily.  This update will go live in October.  Many more things are in the works including more videos and pictures of which my distributors are free to use on their sites as well.  So that is helpful feedback.

I read your comments on the gasket system and think I understand what you are getting at but if I missed the point please forgive me.  The anchors (Primus and Fortis models) have a cavity underneath and so to achieve compression around the fastener entry points to the surface require the use of a high density spacer which closely matches the depth of the cavity so that it is compress onto the EPDM rubber gasket to get that seal.  It is about the best concept for this kind of application I can think of.  The ventilation issue you mention must refer to the air space in the cavity itself.  Is this correct?  Certainly it is not air tight.  The corners are bent and touch each other but it is not a vacuum.  So air, and humidity will get in there the same as around the outside of the anchor.

Weep hole are not a bad idea – perhaps on the sides somewhere and maybe even at ground or surface level.  I like that comment and will think of this seriously over the coming weeks as I tweak my tooling etc.  In the meantime I would not lose any sleep over worrying about humidity inside that air cavity causing rust or corrosion at any different rate or to any different extent than what you will be able to observe from the exterior because it is all hot dip galvanized – not electro-static galvanization and then powder coat painted.  This is the very next best thing to stainless steel.

Now you mention you are from Maine and if you are in a coastal community the salt air may accelerate the corrosive effects on the anchors, even if hot dipped.   However I still think you are going to see a very high level of performance with these give the specifications.

But as Robert mentioned I have the first run of 316 stainless steel (marine grade) 4×4 anchors arriving in about 2 weeks.  This was a commitment I made after a 6 month online survey that confirmed without doubt the need and desire for a marine grade product particularly in the coastal regions of the country.  So there it is.  But these are very expensive to make so I can only imagine the market will be limited.

The next round of Titan anchors is the Titan Fortis – as the name implies it’s stronger  and “beefier”.  It has a wider and longer tube and thicker base and is used with a custom through barrel bolt I designed to give maximum strength against post splitting  when under extreme horizontal load.  Testing will be done this winter but it will be beyond the Titan Primus for sure.  In addition, the next run of Fortis anchors with have an embossed surface on top that will be inside the periphery of the walls of the post and elevate the post base about 1/8″ above the surrounding base surface so the post bottom, which already is well above the wet deck surface, will stay even drier and dry off even quicker after rain showers.

I would be very pleased to send you a sample of the stainless anchor when it arrives.  I truly believe it will be as close to a “final” solution for the coastal folks as technology will allow.   And if it has my name on it nothing else will do.

Thanks for contacting me and all your comments.  Very much appreciated. The Titan Post Anchor can be purchased at www.myocstore.com and can also be viewed with video and instructions at www.ottercreekforestproducts.com

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