How can you fix a loose rail or post? Secure loose newels to the staircase or floor framing using hefty metal connectors, making sure the newel is vertically plumb. Access the anchoring point through the ceiling underneath or by removing flooring on a stair landing. ...
Walking Down Stairs with a Graspable HandrailAt the Castle Point Veterans Administration center this stair guard and handrailing work together to help a population that includes people who have difficulty with stairs. Above: my sister Linda Ann demonstrated that using this stair newel to try to ...
If you’re looking to update your stairs, there are many ways you can do that: take up the carpet, install a carpeted stair runner, paint, restain, replace the railing, build a new banister/newel post, add fabric to the risers, plus more ideas here. But if you’re looking to make...
a carpenter with Passaic Stairs, worked out the distance the lower run of stairs needed to be offset to accommodate the handrail, which needed room to gooseneck up to a let-in newel at the stairwell’s corner and connect at this newel...
I do two swoops on my 8-foot long stair rail, so I find the middle spindle and attach the garland to the stairwell there, then keep going to the bottom. At the end, my second garland is long enough to cascading down the newel post, so I wrap it around the post. 4. Layer on ...