Deck stairs handrail ideas

Building deck stair railing

Building codes require deck railings for decks that are more than 24 inches off the ground. If stairs exist, then these are considered for adding a railing.

In March of 2009, after what we thought might be a summer break from working on the house (ha!) we decided to tackle the outside. We were looking for a low cost, high labor project (to keep us busy…

In the final installment of this three-part series on building deck stairs, Kevin Manning, project manager at Red House Design, talks through adding the final piece of the stairs: hardwood railings. The railings were assembled in sections, secured to a bottom rail, and then topped with a molded handrail for a professional finish.

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Can't have stairs without handrails/handrailings/etc/whatever, (at least in this case). Took about a day and a half, but came out great! Now before you get star…

We rebuilt new stairs at our old home to accommodate the new driveway; see how we did it differently this time, a brand new look for the original merrypad

Handrails are installed on stairs to assist in ascending and descending by providing something to grasp for balance. Building and handrail codes require any flight of stairs with four or more rises to be built with a handrail on at least one...

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black aluminum spindles and graspable handrail

An outdoor stair railing is required when you’re deck or patio is over 30 inches high. Sometimes you might still want to build a stair railing even if your patio isn’t 30 inches high. As you get older, a stair railing is very helpful to climb stairs, even if it is one or two steps.

Building codes require deck railings for decks that are more than 24 inches off the ground. If stairs exist, then these are considered for adding a railing.