Locating rail brackets for stair rails is easy to mess up. If you measure up and your tape is not plumb or your tape is not at the same spot on the nosing, the rail may not end up parallel to the stair nosings.
One easy way to get a rail height of about 36" is to use a framing square for the layout. Put the tongue of the square on the tread nosings... the top of the blade of the square is the bottom of the brackets (though brackets and rails do vary some and that has to be taken into account).
I mark the top of the square in three places and snap a chalkline over these marks, then locate studs on the line, and set the bottom of the brackets on the line (the pic shows a bracket just above where the line would be--learned this trick after I installed this rail).
Anyway, thought some of you might like another use for the framing square.
One easy way to get a rail height of about 36" is to use a framing square for the layout. Put the tongue of the square on the tread nosings... the top of the blade of the square is the bottom of the brackets (though brackets and rails do vary some and that has to be taken into account).
I mark the top of the square in three places and snap a chalkline over these marks, then locate studs on the line, and set the bottom of the brackets on the line (the pic shows a bracket just above where the line would be--learned this trick after I installed this rail).
Anyway, thought some of you might like another use for the framing square.
Attachments
-
100.3 KB Views: 317