When up to deck railing installation by yourself, you must choose railings that are amalgam of strength and beauty. Also, get well-versed with the local code for deck railings in your area before finalizing deck plans. The deck installers in your area are already following these code requirements and offering their clients with deck and railing installations that are maintenance free for a life-time on a transferrable basis as well.
As you start with the deck railing installation, you must arrange a few tools to work with. These would be a hand saw or a reciprocating saw, a Miter saw, a socket wrench, some lag bolts and nails. Once satisfied with your deck plan, make square marks on the joists all the way up to the deck frame to denote the locations where you'd be installing deck rails. If the deck frame is sticking out at the edges, you'd have to cut into the decking frame a bit along the marks made so that the rails squarely fit against the deck frame. The length of the rails would be a sum total of the height of the finally visible rails, breadth of the deck frame and the length of the joists beneath the deck frame. You must neatly and safely cut all the rails in equal length hence determined. Next, you must secure all these rails against the deck frame by driving in two lag bolts each using the socket wrench. Once all the rails are installed, it is time to install balusters in between and the railings cap, while all the time upholding the local code requirements. It is advisable to check out gallery of a few deck installers for some fine and workable ideas.
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