Stair Railing

At least the kids can't fall to the bottom floor any more!

Railing

Not sure when this happened, but I noticed this morning that they finished the stair railing in the garage.

Matt is working on staining the railing upstairs. I hope he finishes the upstairs this week. He still needs to do the varnish coats. He's the one I'm really concerned about.

Railing Installed

The railing is in for the stairs up to the kid's rooms. It turned out really well. I have to admit, I was bummed about putting the newell post in the middle of the curve, but it turned out ok.

Newell Posts

Hard to get pictures of the railing upstairs, but Gary got most of the newell posts installed today.

Stair Railing Base

Gary finished all the base trim for the stair railing. Next will be the wood newell posts and then Matt can stain them in place. They will then put the hand rail up. The spindles won't go in until after the carpet is installed. The workers talked about the stocking days when they do all the touch up stuff.

Hi Dad.

Rail Bender

Interesting process to bend the wood railing around the bump out on the balcony. The trim carpenter bolted these heavy duty brackets to the floor and vice gripped layers of wood glued together to make them bend at the exact curvature of the floor. I can't quite picture what the rail will look like, but it will rest on top of the wrought iron spindles.

Back Deck

More pictures forthcoming on the back deck completion showing stairs and then maybe railing early next week. The stairs are done, but the railing was ordered early this week, so they need to fabricate it. We went with an aluminum, no maintenance railing that looks really nice. A LOT cheaper than wrought iron, which is what I was thinking for the front porch anyway.

They are going to have to do something tricky because the rail doesn't bend for our curved front stairs, but there isn't much distance, so 2 straight sections will look fine. The price difference was ~$4,200 vs. ~$1,100. I would rather use the ~$3k for something inside!! :-)