Daveville30
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Anyone know the best way to measure up a railing.i know there's a simple way but can't remember if I drew it out on the floor or how I did it. Like this
I am currently doing two of these. Extremely difficult to get right. The problem is not a simple rail, as in the pic, but when you turn the corner and go up the second flight. The top rail needs to do some quite upward and twisty stuff to connect the two bits. Not easy to do off the site.
I wouldn't even attempt a second flight in a workshop I'd bring a few elbows and do it in position.
Ignore a template at your peril. The measure is angle, each rise and each going. Be aware that a lot of stairs are badly built and Tollerance can conspire. I measure but the template is your biggest friend. Could take you to quite a few stair railings I ha e do e over the last few years that would never have gone in right first time without a template. If you don't take one be as generous as you can with clearings on the stringer and don't attempt spindles to steps.I don't want to make the same railing. If there is a set off steps I want to know how to measure it up for a railing.
You need a mate and some hardboard. A Stanley knife and a joiners pencil. Ideal if there is no stringer in place, if there is its a trail and error job with the cuts n try process but far less time consuming doing ten templates than fixing one f up.Them steps were granite all different heights .what do u make a template off the step profile?or just the pitch and work off that