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Composite Deck Railing Installation

In this segment Bob watches the crew install the railing on the deck. The composite railing product comes pre-milled to accept all the railing components. As with wood decks, building codes calls for a post every six feet between the railings. The posts are pre-hollowed for wiring if the homeowner decides to light the deck with post-mounted lamps. The balustrades and railings are cut to length on site. Stainless steel screws are used to assemble the pieces. The use of stainless fasteners is an added cost, but longevity of the deck material means that uncoated fasteners would rust long before the deck might need replacing.
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Composite Deck Railing Installation

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" The railing system that's also part of this is really pretty finely -- although I mean all the pieces come. Ready to be used in one of the interesting things is the posts which. Have a hollow cavity in them so that you can feed up electric wiring if you want to put lights on here and which are attached underneath. With these steel brackets that are supplied as well so that you know the line post and the corner posts are very very -- attached. And because -- we watch you put this all together I mean here you have spacing blocks. The bottom to so that we. 348 spacing -- and then this is all milled. So that these fall into a channel but that's not enough to keep them tight we have to do -- an angle bracket aren't put off -- still language angle bracket. Now can you make these any length you want here is a six foot maximum between posts. Is the Boca approval -- six feet or less it. It comes in twelve foot pieces so you can. You can trim it to whatever you whatever unique. You'll notice there's. Slit that we will put our screws through to anchor the baluster to the folks each bracket. All right the spindles or balusters for the railing are inch and a quarter stocked square and you see and used for a couple of these in place distinct. Guide the height -- the top rail which cooey has here and the top rail comes with the it's the stainless steel brackets. Which again get fastened on to the posts. All right so the first spindle. It's placed tight cover against the post -- and that helps that through the rigidity of the whole thing correct. And we'll countersink these just like the decking and we'll tap -- you'll see that the and then before we put all the spindles in place we drill a couple of weeks old. In about eight inches from each post. So that any moisture that gets trapped down there will run off correct yes. On a six foot railing there'll be about. Twelve spindles that will go into. And you need a lot of and in need all these precut spacers right. Correct yes. But they are cut out the balusters. So these were cut on site or do they got on the side now they're cut on site so you can decide determine how far you need to go between your balusters and you need to stay within. Four inches is a maximum between balusters and pretty much code across the country right. Nice and -- And in this last we should fit perfectly. The boy that is pursued that how we do the same thing on top precht correct. So we're free drilling a little pilot holes. Correct on the top rail in each place where. We'll drive a three inch through. Didn't hold that building the -- correct and that'll secure the balusters right. Then one feature we haven't pointed out is that this materials kind of self sealing. You don't see where the fasteners are in. It makes for nice clean look and we got a cap to put on and a top rail to put on. -- And do these have to be fastened from the top yes terrific -- he's going to all right thanks cooey thanks Jim."

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