Where to buy these uprights?

[thinfourth]

I am wanting to build a new handrail for around the decking of our summerhouse. Now the main house has these and i want to match them but have had trouble finding the large loopy uprights.

Any ideas?

 

[Wedg1e]

Don't have the answer, but if I were you I'd stop the wife parking your car

 

[thinfourth]

Don't have the answer, but if I were you I'd stop the wife parking your car

Thats my £150 landrover in its gravity assist starting position

 

[Hitch]

I have seen the ones with the small knot in various places, like Brundles, FJ Brindley, North valley forge...

But not the ones with the big loops. Would be easy to do them if you got some wavy bar though...

 

[thinfourth]

Whats wavy bar and where can i buy it?

And once i have said wavy bar how would you make the big loops

 

[Hitch]

Whats wavy bar and where can i buy it?

And once i have said wavy bar how would you make the big loops

Its bar, thats wavy Wavy bar... dunno what else it may be called.


Suppliers, as above probably.

Forming the bigger looks, youd need a ring jig, basically a bit of tube slghtly smalller than the hoop you want to form. Bend the wavy bar round the jig.

 

[Welderpaul]

We have a bloke that comes and pesters us. He made some panels just like those out of 16mm round bar. Had various offcuts of big tube from us, and used it to bend them round. Smart job, and easy to do.

 

[mike 109444]

try B n Q garden section

Take a look in B n Q garden section for bean growing rods. Not quite the same but cheep enough and they come in pack of three aprox 8ft long 10mm diameter plastic coated. Colours were black, green and silver when I bought some. See pic, there is a mix of B n Q bean rods and concreat renforcing bar (barly twist) painted black.

 

[outofthefire]

Make your own its simple. The thinner ones you could do cold. Just find something to bend the bar round, bits of tube, old gas bottles, old car wheels or if you have a steel welding table you could make a jig by welding short lengths of 20mm round bar to it to give you the profiles you want. You might even get away with a wooden jig you could cut the profiles from mdf or plywood with a jigsaw and screw them to a bigger piece. The thicker lengths you might need to use heat but a propane torch would do. I'd bend the loops first then make the bar wavy. If your really stuck a blacksmith would make you them.

 

[thinfourth]

I am sure they are bought in as there is loads of them and they are pretty similar and i saw a staircase at a building show with identical uprights