Hello Everyone,
Hope someone can give me some good advice concerning a friends railing. She had some college kids bring a sofa upstairs and they cut the oak handrailing in one spot, and pulled out several balusters, in order to get the sofa up there. Any ideas on how to join the railing back together so it’s good and strong and looks good? Thanks for any suggestions.
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Dowel it with a 1' piece of #4 rebar epoxied in.
Center your holes by clamping some 2x to one end for an alignment guide and stick a double pointed nail in the end of one piece of railing. I don't know what you will do about the kerf (missing)
SamT
Save yourself some time. Call the local stair shop or lumber yard and get an L.J. Smith rail bolt kit. Follow the instructions, use a good glue,( I use Titebond Waterproof) and think it through. You'll need a drill and a few bits. Get a rail bolt wrench as well. the bolts with the knurled wheels suck.
Go into the railing dept at Home Depot..ugh..and look for the the package of two sided bolts with star wheels on both ends. You'll need two different size bits.
One to have the bolt enter each side of the railing and one to get to the star wheel from under the railing where you'll be able to tighten the two halfs together with a slotted screw driver after adding some glue.
I believe directions are in the package.
edit: oops, I see Robert already said that.
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andy
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Edited 9/7/2003 6:58:25 AM ET by Andy Clifford(Andybuildz)
Does thisa thread remind anybody of the other one - "Why I hate our local college students"?
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haven't read that one but the minute I heard stair railings I looked at the spelling and font size ; )
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