Showing posts with label Ambler PA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ambler PA. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Forget home advisors Hire THE Best Stairs And Rails And Iron Balusters Installers In Mt Laurel NJ


















This is how the Best Stair and Rail and Iron Baluster Installers do it in Mt Laurel. NJ. Here's a great example of what your foyer could look like. All new flared stair with upper radius balcony really setting it off. Iron balusters with just enough fancy to satisfy your eyes and just enough practical to satisfy your heart.

These were some of the easiest people to work with. Super nice. They knew what they wanted and let us do our thing to make it happen. I love it when the homeowner asks, can we do that? You can do that? And you say absolutely! We've done this a thousand times! And that's not too far fetched. We've done @ 50-100 projects a year for 30 years. Every layout, every baluster, every post, every rail, every type of wood species, you've ever seen, in just about every town in the Delaware Valley, in just about every development...we've created a stair and or rail at least once. This took about a week. Old stair out....@2-3 hours... New stair in..@ 2-3 hours. New rails in...@ 3-4 days. Then they needed new floors, stain, paint, trim, etc. Then we came back and installed the iron balusters in @ 4-5 hours.

So if your stair or rail isn't all it could be, or all you want it to be, forget the home advisors that "verify" all of their contractors...by checking their phone number and ensuring their credit card payment went through.They're about as verified for highly skilled work as your typical fast food employee. Forget the national database scammers and go with the local pro who's been doing stairs and rails for 30 years.

Serving @ 50 mile radius from Philadelphia, we serve all of South Jersey, the Main Line, Bucks and Montgomery County, and Camden, Burlington, and Gloucester county, mostly. So if you're in Mt Laurel or surrounding towns and you want your foyer looking great again, call the Best Stairs and Rails and Iron Baluster Installers around at 215-694-5046 and ask for Ron, or send him a text at same number, or shoot him an email at 45stairman@gmail.com.







 

Sunday, April 24, 2016

How To Replace Painted Wood Balusters With Iron Balusters Blue Bell PA






How To Replace Painted Wood Balusters With Iron Balusters in Blue Bell PA. Tip #1.Call your local professional. Ok here goes a little rant I'm going to apologize in advance as I start this blog post, I'm remembering the last job I went to measure down near the Jersey Shore. The poor homeowner hired what she believed to be a competent carpenter. He "installed" all the posts, handrails, and iron balusters, but this being new construction when the inspector came in he gave her a big fail sticker. Now I have to undo everything he did and start over. The only parts we can salvage are the iron balusters. So here's a partial list of what he did wrong.
1. He set the posts too high and secured them to the floor with trim screws....result: very weak, very crooked newel posts.
2. He then cut the nosing in but didn't secure it to the sub floor correctly...result:very loose nosing that the balusters have to sit in.
3. He used wrong measurements for the baluster spacing....result: erratic spacing and baluster spaces that are bigger than 4" apart. Very big no no to inspectors.
4. He placed the volute posts too close to the edge of the bullnose tread...result: the balusters can't encircle the newel posts as they're supposed to.
5. He connected the rail fittings together using trim screws instead of rail bolts....result: really ugly rail joints that he didn't chisel or sand at all.
6. He didn't know where to cut the volute upeasing....result: the ugliest volute connection of all time.

I could go on and on but you get the idea. I know I got maybe a little too technical here but I was trying to make a point. Handrail installation is a very technically challenging project and not to be tackled by amateurs or DIY types. That is not to say no one can figure it out. I've seen a handful of jobs done by amateurs over the years that were really good. But that's only about 5 out of the dozens in I've seen in 35 years of life in construction.
With the homeowners permission I'll post some photos once I've started her job.
This job with photos above, however was a job we completed a few months ago in Blue Bell, where we removed the existing painted wood balusters and installed their new powder coated iron balusters in about a day and a half. We had to remove some carpeting and replace it with what we call "false ends" which are basically miniature tread ends that cover up the edge of your existing open stair treads that were covered with carpet and full of staples and not too pretty. So we installed the end caps then installed the iron balusters and they had new carpet installed up to the edge of the end caps and it looks like a new stair for a fraction of the cost of a new stair.  

So, if you're in need of a new rail, new stair, or just new wood or iron balusters and you don't know How To Replace Balusters With Iron Balusters and you live in Blue Bell, Ambler, Abington, Jenkintown, Lafayette Hill, Wyndmoor or surrounding towns, be sure to call Ron, your very own local stair and rail professional to schedule your FREE consultation: he can be reached at 215-694-5046 or email him at 45stairman@gmail.com.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

New Wood Stair With Iron Balusters Ambler PA


                                                      New Brazilian Cherry Stair and Handrail


                                     Single Diamond, Double Diamond, Square Hammered,
                                          Iron Balusters separated by Straight Hammered Bar


                                  Double Open Stair with Volutes over Bullnose starting step


                                                        Continuous handrail upstairs


                                             New Hardwood Handrail Iron Balusters


                              Trim molding under Brazilian Cherry face boards and Stringers


                                                 Before: Original Boxed Stair about to be removed


                                                             Original Handrail upstairs


                                                                 More Before Photos


                                                Builder Grade Stair with Carpet Removed


We just finished this New Wood Stair With Iron Balusters in Ambler PA. The owner of this home hated his carpeted, big box builder, lumber yard grade stair, and wanted his stair and rail to match his new Brazilian cherry floors. Note the original block top newel posts we replaced with pin top posts so rail can go "over-the-post", which gives you a seamless continuous handrail from top to bottom. We pulled out the old boxed stair and installed the new double open solid Brazilian cherry stair in about 5 hours. We then started installing the upper posts and handrail the same day. The rest  of handrail installation and trim took about a week. Homeowner then had everything stained and painted, and I came back a week later and installed the final trim and iron balusters. So, if you're looking to replace your old, tired, carpeted, painted, worn, unseemly stair, and are in need of a New Wood Stair With (or without) Iron Balusters in Ambler PA (and surrounding areas, Horsham, Blue Bell, Ft Washington),  be sure to give Ron a call to schedule your FREE consultation ($250 value).

Email 45stairman@gmail.com
Cell 215-694-5046