How To Build A Porch Railing Yourself
Next mark the railing height on the posts with a pencil and double-check the distance between the posts.
How to build a porch railing yourself. Then buy balusters and wood according to your measurements or cut the wood down to size yourself. The balusters are the supports between the top and bottom rail. With one of our railing kits or a custom built solution using Kee Klamp pipe fittings its possible to build a railing in just a few hours many of.
We wanted to match the existing porch railing. 1 2x4x10 pressure treated to use as rails 5. This railing was built by Richard in Reading Pennsylvania for the concrete front porch outside his home.
You will need to purchase enough 2 X 6 railing and 2 X 2 balusters to form the railing. To build a deck railing start by figuring out how many posts you need then cut your wood to size and install the posts. The kit uses a combination of Swivel Socket fittings so that the railing can be installed on stairs with any angle.
This how-to shows the steps we took to install Schedule 20 PVC pipe as railing on our existing porch with pre-installed posts. Darek built this railing up his front porch steps using this Surface Mount Railing Kit. How to make porch railing easy with just 2x4s DIY.
Our mission was to build a railing that was sturdy and inexpensive yet a thing of beauty to behold. Its a pretty simple design with plain 2X2 spindles. Repeat this process with the opposite column.
You can add a handrail to finish it off and make it even more secure. Then connect the sections with a diagonal piece of wood and another going in the opposite direction. The carpenter shows Bob the new railing on the deck off the master bedroom explaining that code requires that it be 36 inches tall.