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Building the Porch Rail
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" That's very -- Larry. Very clean looking -- and -- it over the top and bottom real Bob with Douglas fir. In the rhetoric grain right right the balusters here -- straight grain cedar. Or its -- and it's a clear indicator yet clear cedar correct. If they meet code requirement here being up on the second floor as we -- we're above the kitchen all get a rubber roof on top of that. We're about twelve feet off the ground all you gotta have a safe railing video requires the -- minimum height of thirty -- into the -- law finished deck yet even here yet all right we've and then what about the spacing in between these spindles or balusters they have to be a minimum of nine inches. Perpendicular. For the baluster itself but we chose -- because of the it looks better actually. Well it's a great -- thirty to a temporary design and what I love about it is that. It kind of wood you've chosen really take the weather very very well absolutely want to show us how you build it. Okay. While these pizzas right here are what I'm laying out for the balusters and what we know is these are rails. Well these -- about the this piece that attaches to the rail actually holds the balusters together they would like to have screws and l.s. Coming up from the water on it well I'll explain that in a minute what we have been through here lay it out I have a -- bait here. Like made a walk with five and a half inches long because the balusters belted out of it what we do it in the we've already got that. That point there so. Put a mark here -- here. -- over. Here. Here at. They take this where. And what we'll goes."
" All the ballots that right on if two people and then put the top and the bottom rail. On afterwards okay that the area temple the next step Bob is we lay these down in the exit there right next retailers righty right about here. -- baluster. And I had -- them right. Shootout with two still -- Galvanized finished nails. Yeah and they're all glued together but they're literally two inch finished now its and they go right in the right. That's right. After the nails go in well. Repulsed all in the hands just put a two inch galvanized screw and really hold together on there right. It's now the beauty of doing it likes it when it's complete you won't be any of the nail and nail there no it won't see anything -- and prevent them from which. Over time just want. -- buying and a lot of what trail tonight. That pretty clever you're just holding them in place with the other. Rail otherwise it all fall down yet. We -- in. In shoot him from a it's. Just."
" She. Felt what through. Are these that we you'd be here if you've been through -- galvanized (%expletive) she's not overkill here. You really needed in addition to the nail well it it helped make it helps snug the wood up real good for the over the time middle well in Iraq and whatnot. Even with a finish on it right. Those -- secure that it won't prevalent more work."
" It's two by four which -- Basically cut it on the table all right that's right brought in what would you call that that board that you've got clamped down on the dock that's called a feather board and what it does that hold the wood to the table so that this -- right here will be. Nice and even and move all the way down. It out of being the top rail we're going to rule from the autumn. With Internet quarters Rosen you're gonna help us hold it on the line right your blog feed line right here yet there it is daylight at the that are okay -- About it. The reason why we're screwing from the bottom here on the top rail so that you don't see any hardware other. You know screw heads or tails rioting the thought. And now basically we do the exact same thing on the other end on the bottom basically but. From the withdrew from the bottom on this one right the bottom of the bottom rail we've already pre drill the holes -- out of the way here."
" As well."
" Okay -- and now this is really finished work that we're doing here and you get have to be real careful with the stock down here. Well what we want it though is. Get a pre made panel. In place and grew up and down."
" What we've done it. We pre drilled are all flawed because it can always replied. Not show any Albert rose we've pre drilled at an angle from underneath here right. And all galvanized roofing for the vote yes but it's extremely important to pre drill these holes that otherwise you can check in split then got right at the end and annually through your stuff."