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Installing Stair Handrails and Balusters
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Installing Stair Handrails and Balusters
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" Before we get started with the handrail, we have some prep work to do. First, we have to remove the temporary handrail used during construction. Next, we have the trim moldings along the wall then we remove the protector thread covers from the stairs. Now, we're ready to get going. We've already got these balusters and railing in place, but what they really needed to do first was to get this newel post set, which is critical. What you wanna be careful of doing is making sure that when it is in, this nosing, does not come part of the newel post and it's centered, so that the opposing nosing also lands in the same spot which puts us where Dale is gonna get to our last newel post for us right now."
" The way the fellows from Port City staircase have assured that we're going to be centered where we wanna be, is that the lined up that newel post, so dead center is on the line of plaster right here and I've done the same thing on the opposing wall. Then, we're ready actually, we're ready right now. We can go ahead and cut our nosing, which the blade out. Ahead of time for us, all this dowels which started from the centerline and went left and right. Okay, now this should fit right in there and"
" now the fifth newel post in the correct spot, it did a nice square fit on both ends and the nosing is not part of the newel post, that can go right into place. Okay, and now, Dale, can finish this up by putting the apron underneath it with the moldings."
" And with that last piece he's putting on is just a 3-quarter inch kosher. Before Dale sets the balusters he puts a little glue in the dowel holes."
" The balusters are all doweled on the bottom end."
" Now, he is just setting the balusters. All you really need is the glue on the bottom to hold them. You can see on the profile of this cap, there's an area here that's gonna receive a top of those balusters. "
" Now I'm just driving the screw through the newel post to catch it."
" That's good and snug."
" Now we just glue a plug in the newel post and tap it in."
