Video: Building a Deck: Rail Material

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When building a deck, 20-year composite made from plastic, clay and UB inhibitors are efficient materials for rails and don't need to be measured or screwed in together. Constructing a new railing for a deck should be simple with tips from a deck repair specialist in this free video on home improvement.

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We are at the hand rail set up here. This is a geo 20 year composite, warranty on it. It is made out of plastic and clay and UB inhibitors. Now this is the straight railing that goes across your decking and it has small square holes in it which will hold your balusters in there like this. It is very nice and very efficient. You don't have to measure and you don't have to screw it together. Your top goes on like so. It has a nice metal reinforcing aluminum piece in here. Now the bottom for the straight railing is different than the stair railing. The stair railing goes on an angle and the holes are like rectangular and not square so that when you put these in you can get your angle that goes up and down with your railing like this. So there is two different ones. You want to make sure that you don't start cutting these or these. They have collars that go on the ends, they have to go on the right way. This is for your straight railing up there, put one on each end, when you have it together and you just put stainless steel screws in here that comes with the kit and you can buy all the railing in the kit and it will come with all the parts or you can buy the bottom and the top rails separate, the sleeves separate, the spindles separate and so this is a post sleeve post that goes over your 4 X 4 uprights and your sleeves connect right on to the side of the posts with your stainless steel screws. Now the sleeve for your straight rails are just about an inch and a half whereas you have these great big ones where you have your railing fit in here and when you have an angle on your railing you can cut it like this so you need a great big stair rail collar so you can put your angle on here. They're quite a bit different than these smaller ones.

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Building a Deck: Rail Material

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