Bannister and spindles replacement costs?
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Would be cheaper to pay someone to prep and paint it nicely!
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How can anyone guess without even a suggestion as to the size of the job?
I dunno , how do you size it up? it’s an Average staircase in an average terraced house
What length, how many spindles, what type of wood. That's for starters!
Possibly but they’re in a state, wood stained/ varnished then painted a few times over the years, paints falling off in places, sanding is proving nearly impossible to get it decent , can’t get into the nooks and crannies of the spindles , paint removers having little effect, heatgun works a little but then then the melting varnish underneath glues the paint flakes back to it, it’s a nightmare
I've just replaced my handrail and spindles into my loft room. From memory the 3.6m oak handrail cost £150-£200 and the spindles were about a fiver each (just softwood as I painted them white)
I'm just about to do my main stairs but it's proving to be a lot more expensive as the original handrail goes up the stairs, turns back on itself, then goes up 3 more stairs to the landing, then across the landing and finally does a 90 degree turn to the loft room door. I've had a few people out to give me a quote and they've all sucked in air through their teeth and said "that's gonna be expensive" and none have got back to me with a price so it doesn't look promising.
I'm just about to do my main stairs but it's proving to be a lot more expensive as the original handrail goes up the stairs, turns back on itself, then goes up 3 more stairs to the landing, then across the landing and finally does a 90 degree turn to the loft room door. I've had a few people out to give me a quote and they've all sucked in air through their teeth and said "that's gonna be expensive" and none have got back to me with a price so it doesn't look promising.
Was it straight sections or any curved bits? From what I can tell it's the curved bits like this on mine that make it expensive
I'm currently doing the same thing. Getting the several layers of paint off with a heatgun is pretty easy but it's the woodstain that causes the problem, it ends up in a big gloopy mess on the scraper most of the time :/.
If I can't get all of it off I'm probably going to end up buying some Langlow Strip Away Pro. From what I understand this is proper old school paint stripper not the waterered down modern stuff and is technically banned under EU law (e.g., it must be good). If you do end up getting some you do need to wear rubber gloves, cover your arms, wear goggles, and work somewhere well ventilated (setup a fan) because it is dangerous stuff in an enclosed place!
If I can't get all of it off I'm probably going to end up buying some Langlow Strip Away Pro. From what I understand this is proper old school paint stripper not the waterered down modern stuff and is technically banned under EU law (e.g., it must be good). If you do end up getting some you do need to wear rubber gloves, cover your arms, wear goggles, and work somewhere well ventilated (setup a fan) because it is dangerous stuff in an enclosed place!
All straight so nothing too expensive. Makes a huge difference though, we had a 1970s rail design previous. I’m on holiday so can’t post any pre and post pics unfortunately
Your bonkers if you use that indoors. Its vile stuff (but very effective). Its the only stuff that you can get these days that actually strips powdercoat which is useful but honestly its ridiculously awful, the fumes from it are overpowering to say the least
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We've just had ours replaced, taking out old rail style bannisters, but using existing newell posts and adding caps. It was £700 all in for softwood (we're painting it).
This was for a standard set of stair bannisters/spindles, but with two landing sections, one running the full length of the stairs and then one just at the width of the stairs. No curved sections, all the rails go from newell post to newell post.
This was for a standard set of stair bannisters/spindles, but with two landing sections, one running the full length of the stairs and then one just at the width of the stairs. No curved sections, all the rails go from newell post to newell post.