Cabin in the Woods 47: Installing Handrails PART 1

all right it's time to start getting this railing installed so i think i've got figured out what i'm going to do i've got my 4x4 top and my 4x4 bottom rail and we're going to be doing a black aluminum spindle so i think that's going to be a nice contrast all the wood we've got black windows we've got black hardware so i think that's a good look i've also got to make it simpler more simple i've got these black plugs and these plugs are going to get screwed in to the top and bottom and then when i push these spindles in i don't want to do it yet because i don't want to lock them in they're going to get locked in so it doesn't make me have to drill holes for these spindles to go in on all of these rails but i do want it to be nice and uniform and consistent and most importantly i've got seven of these rail sets to make i want to be efficient so instead of every one of them coming through and measuring out all my locations marking them trying to get them all straight i'm gonna go ahead and make myself a quick template out of plywood that i can put on each top and bottom rail with a hole already drilled out so i can just set the little plug right in the hole and fasten it right where it belongs that's my thought anyway so let's go ahead and do that and see how it goes so in order to make this template what i've got is a piece of 1x4 this is the same width as one of those 4x4 posts and it's the same length as the spacing now the other thing i want to make sure is that it's straight so this is a nice straight edge and i think it's definitely good enough there's a slight maybe a 64th of a gap here and maybe a little bit stronger 30 second right here but overall i think it's going to be just fine because what i'm going to do is i'm going to lay this right on top of that 4x4 and i want to make sure it's straight if it's bowed it's obviously not going to be too too consistent so what i'm gonna do is mark my center point down here and i'm gonna mark a center point down here and it's okay to spend a little bit of extra time on something like this that's prep work because it should not only make your job easier in the long run but also probably more accurate consistent and in the end you'll probably you will probably save some time the more you do obviously the more time savings that you're going to have so this is just to ensure a nice straight line i could use my square and scribe the line at inch and three quarters but if there's any inconsistency in the board it's going to show up in my line all right so now that i have my center line determined the next thing i need to do is actually get the center of my board i know it's around 38 and 5 8. so we're going to make a 38 and 5 8 tick and check it coming back this way so yes and now i'm going to lay out where my spindle locations are going to be so now that i have all my spindle locations what i need to do is drill a nice clean hole all the way through the exact size as those plugs so that i can just set this on that 4x4 drop a plug in and screw it that way it doesn't move around it will be perfectly placed where i want it and i can repeat this process very easily just by moving this board from one 4x4 to another i've got my forstner bit set i love this set i'm thinking it's probably three-quarter yeah i mean it's exactly three-quarter let's go ahead and drill a three-quarter plug out and see what what it does so now i should be able to take the plug set it right in there it's perfectly snug oh this is gonna work out perfect i'm gonna go ahead and drill the rest of these and we should be good to go [Music] these have got to be like the cleanest forstner bits ever by diablo actually i think they're i think they're freud but regardless i don't know ah they're diablo all right so there is my board it's my template and the plugs fit just ever so precisely right in there so this should allow me to get a nice crisp straight line on the spindles accurately placed on every single one and hopefully efficient as possible because we're getting close to the end on this project and we want to keep moving forward all right to make this as easy as possible what i'm going to do is put one of these plugs in the end oh thanks dude let's put those on [Music] all right so there we go there's our top all right i mean i don't think it looks that bad worth keeping yeah yeah i could i could i could i could i'm gonna i'm gonna see how this one goes and i'm gonna you know assess from there so i did the one furthest away from everything live and learn dude this is all like i mean if doctors and freaking weathermen can practice be wrong and still have a job we ain't getting fired if we mess up we'll just do better next time learn from our mistakes dude this is a practice for when i build my own personally time to install spindles i think from down there your site will be more important than what i see up here because what you see from down there is what's going to be seen you'll never see the bottom it's only the top oh no i don't want to go down all the way so that's that now the question will be how is it going to feel when we jig it and what i'm gonna have you do is like on the top push it push it and keep everything as nice and tight as possible let's uh check i thought about getting the laser out but this method will keep it as straight as this mezzanine which is straight right right right and that's that's dead nuts i mean it does actually feel really i don't know what happens if somebody freaking jumps into it you know once we get through this one we could strap around the column and stuff the last time we did that though oh that was stupid what about right there [Applause] that's solid yeah it's not too bad i still think i should put a lag right to the center yeah if you want to i mean that's not a big deal i mean the stronger the better right yeah that ain't gonna split nothing i think i mean if i wanted to i could pre-drill it but i don't know if i even have to we do this all the time how does the uh how do the correct jig holes look totally noticeable but not bad this feels it feels really nice all right well i'm gonna do this last craig jig over here and then uh go on to go on to the next one [Applause] all right we got the first rail set done and i think it's a good look i think it's going to look better obviously when these posts get finished but i like the contrast of the black aluminum spindle obviously there's a lot of wood in here so it's a nice change of pace instead of having just a wooden spindle we might have been able to get away with just a fully aluminum black rail and or even we could have mounted some black aluminum rail in between all of these wooden newer posts that might have been kind of cool too greg you know what i'm saying but these are some beefy hand hand rails i don't think they're going anywhere and i feel really good especially after getting a 10 inch 3 8 grk in and i'll be able to do that on every one side i won't be able to do it from the back side but uh yeah i don't think it's going anywhere it's no wwe wrestling arena up here or the cage greg so i don't think it's gonna see so much action this is by far the easiest way to measure in between two objects and get a very accurate reading you want this back [Applause] [Music] yeah i'm done i'm gonna go cut my bottoms get all those prepped and then bring them back up and install the bottoms on i like it huh greg what do you think buddy huh e time now that i've got my bottoms all in place and they all fit really nicely what i'm going to do is get all my tops cut i'm going to get the spindle set the top set where i want them to make sure everything is good and i can get a visual you know looking down the top rails to make sure everything looks good it should be as straight as my floor is which i know that was all done with a laser but you know it's just good to double check because you never know and i just want to make sure that it's good before we proceed now this is also where i'm going to want to check plumb so this one i could cut really tight because it wouldn't hurt me to have this post pushed over just a hair so we're just going to double check this 6 5 and 3 8. we're going to go an extra 16 so that means i better not cut the next one until i get this one so i'll keep using the previous board to straighten out the post for my next board if that makes sense now at this point all i'm really doing is i'm just pushing it right near the top on the back side and then i just spread the post out just to get these in and make sure that they're good making sure that the joints have very minimal gapage obviously that way i can correct any that are no good and by tightening up as i go when i set these columns i knew that i'd be coming off of that end wall which meant that wasn't going to move so i i was kind of married to the perfect plumness of that wall with that first column but as i moved my way out i knew that if i was slightly leaning towards that wall i with these guys i could actually use the strength of the column to keep my post nice and tight so what i mean by that is they're all leaning just slightly to the south which is this way so when i put my level on here as i work my way out i can bring them back to level by cutting these tops ever so slightly long and then that also creates tension in between each post where those top rails are hence why they're sitting there currently just sitting there so this one here is ever so slightly leaning back this way about an eighth of an inch at the most in that four foot level so we'll go ahead and grab a distance six five and three sixteenths which has been kind of the theme and i'll add about an eighth inch to that maybe not quite an eighth i might just go six five and a quarter and this one's not too bad so let me go cut that all right we got one more here let's see how we are on plum okay now this one is good which is which is a good thing i didn't want to have to push and pull the new post on the corner six five and three sixteenths okay we'll go get that last one all right by the way all all four pieces worked good and i'm just taking them back out now i'm marking up the north end and what number they are in the order and i'm going to take them out to the garage where i've got all my tools set up and the sawdust can be out there and we're going to get all these uh prepped with the plugs or the baluster mounts or whatever get the kreg jigs done and then come back and we should be able to install these all pretty darn easily i'm gonna go ahead and get all these balusters on and then i'll start putting the tops on might be a little challenging aligning everything up as i go but if i need to call i need to call in some big guns i got greg downstairs doing some cleanup and prep work for the next project so [Music] [Applause] power [Applause] so [Applause] craig what do you think the possibility of putting a grk into those craig holes yeah i mean they're about the same size a little bit longer i think a structural screw i think i might even have some number 10s which would be even better i want to i'm going to give it a try and see see what it does looks pretty nice doesn't it it like changes everything i haven't haven't like adjusted everything perfectly yet you know pretty good though well there's uh some of these bottoms have like you know a little bit of like hoops so like if you look here you can see that these tops aren't perfectly tight right because this has like a slight bow and i thought you would rather have a bow than to look at it and see it do this because i don't think the eye's going to pick up that because these top ones though top ones are pretty good [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] uh [Music] [Applause] i mean i feel way better about a grk than a craig jigs crew yeah i know but i just feel better but no i don't think so it's just that they're they're made to like you know have the pan head and they're just made to like sucks they're just cheap screw to suck a piece of trim together you know i mean they're not a structural screw at all so at least these are going to resist sheer force which is what i'd rather have than holding power you know what i'm saying because these ain't going anywhere they're held between pretty tight yep almost done and then it'll be figuring out the stairs i love this drill it's like the perfect clutch driver for doing this sort of work i think the upstairs is officially done all right

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Id: 3BtFY3PAw0Q

Length: 21min 13sec (1273 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 06 2021