FITTING STAIR SPINDLES

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I had out grown the boarded style

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So it had to be cut out. This was very easy with an electric saw and a
non chip blade.

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The bottom and hand rail was routed for fit 32mm spindles which I bought from a local scrap dump. Chosen because they were the right width for the rails. After fitting the spindle the exposed slot needed to be filled with packing to allow a spacer to be fitted flush.

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Had to replace the centre board piece because it hid a wall.

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The gap between the stair sections also had to be boarded

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Because routing out the stair rails to 32mm was really messy. I chose to cut out 10mm on the landing rails.

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Both ends of the spindle were cut with a cross cut bench saw to fit the 10mm slot.
Spacing out the spindles was fiddly. Between each spindle was a 5x31mm spacer that covered the slot.

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The spindles were fixed using 5min fixatropic glue from Tool.S.

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The spacers were fixed with no-nails. A bit of filler covered up my joints. They are all very secure and because they were painted looked fine.

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The reason that I was able to stick at it and what I can be thankful for.

Conclusion;- I thought that I had made some mistakes since I had never done this job before. Like I said, it could be quite fiddly.
I found it was better after cutting them to paint the spindles before installing them. This was done on my partners clothes airer.It was good to have a few spare to allow for mistakes.
Keep the routing to a minimum.
The Dulux paint I used was good to use but a whole lot better with a dash of thinners and applied with a small fine haired wide brush. A normal brush carried to much paint in it and caused runs.
As a note of warning you must take care when using powered tools to cut spindles not to get one of these.

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This DIY topic took me ages to put together. I now appreciate a lot more those who have taken so much care to get their message across.
A BIG THANKYOU TO YOU

 

[Bahco]

Lovely job. Hope your eye gets better.