Dustin Luby, a Home Mender, provides tips on how to secure a loose handrail in stairs. He suggests installing toggle bolts, securing posts, and adding framing blocking between adjacent wall studs for solid and secure fastening. To prevent railing end caps from loosening again, Luby recommends inspecting and tightening all railing components and applying a small amount of thread-locking. If a loose stair rail, weak stair rail, or no rail at all, installing a solidly anchored railing at the proper handrail height is recommended. Drill guide holes to prevent stressing the wood and secure L brackets in place with wood screws. Test the handrail for looseness and replace if necessary.
To reinforce stairs, Luby suggests stabilizing newel posts, which are typically bolted from the underside of the stairs. If not, replace them. Wood railings and painted spindles are popular ways to update staircases, and Luby suggests spreading the joint, grinding existing glue off the surface, checking the fit, and coating both faces of the miter with high-quality wood glue. A metal brace can be connected to the bottom of the descending handrail and secured with drill holes into the wood stairs railings. To tighten up handrails with spindles, apply a metal corner bracket to reinforce the structure from below and apply wood glue for even more stability.
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Actually, this is terrible. These old stairs often arent even made with stringers. Even if they were, that triangle is long since old and dead, popped off like a nacho, causing all sorts of squeaks. If not before, definitely after the use of a lower newel post anchor…… But once that 3 hours of trying prove to do a LOT of durkin around more than those toenailed 12p nails…. you can just pull a couple stair tread or risers off and make some blocking and glue all the stairs around the entire base to be solid as heck!
Should have put down painters tape over the dowel and use a sharp knife to cut in the gap around the dowel to mask a perfect paint mask. And done a better job of matching the paint to the existing paint. What they had was way off and it was very noticeable even in the wide shot. Two small circles of a slightly different color would have been less noticeable. Also that paint was not prepped properly. Should have primed the bare wood and (to the extent they were painting over existing enamel) used a deglosser or sanded the entire front of the block. And a lot of old trim paint is oil. If that was oil paint that mismatched paint they glopped on will peel right off.
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That tape on the bracket is a new one for me. But yeah definitely don’t want a railing that wiggles like that. Looks like the previous owner decided that putting screws all around was the way to go, instead of putting what would work. And yeah those two on the side were definitely macht nichts, as my great grandmother would say. I liked the sanding, because even if you decided to go with stain and varnish, that’s half the work done for you anyway 😅