Railings, and DONE!

Life has been kind of crazy the last few weeks (I did can 75 pints of apricot pineapple jelly, for instance), so even though work has been going on on the deck, I haven't gotten the pictures posted.  And now it's done!!  Yippee!!

Well, there is one post cap that was warped, and I have to take it back and get a replacement.  But that just has to wait for another day.

Once the stairs were up, we could walk up and down, but it was a bit nerve racking, since there were no railings.  So we didn't do it much.  It was very nice to have the back door available, though!

So the first thing to do was put in the posts.  What a pain.  There is a steel post, then the vinyl sleeve that goes over it.  You have to put down the steel support, then attach the post, then put on the sleeve to make it pretty.  But they got done! 

 

The metal support under the post.

Railings done on the stairs.

That was one day's work.

Next came the railings.   We did the railings on the deck one day, then another day we did the stairs.

First railing section done on the deck!

All the deck railings finished!

The stairs were a bit tricky.  We didn't get them perfect, BUT unless you are looking for it, the imperfections are not noticeable. 

Here's the railing support for the stairs.

One section done, one to go!

All done!  Doesn't it look great!