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2. Sick of Your Stairs? Try These Designer-Approved Railing Ideas

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   Pet Friendly Stair Railing. This sunny staircase leads to the children's room on the lower level of a California home designed by Mark D. Sikes to embrace fun inside and out. The railings and ...

3. Stairs - Wikipedia

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   At the top of the stairs, the horizontal portion of the railing is called an "over easing". Core rail: Wood handrails often have a metal core to provide extra strength and stiffness, especially when the rail has to curve against the grain of the wood. The archaic term for the metal core is "core rail".

4. Deck railing - Wikipedia

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   The most common residential deck railing design is built on-site using pressure treated lumber, with the vertical balusters regularly spaced to meet building code. [1] Wood railing could be in different styles such as Victorian, Chippendale railing and others. [2] A popular alternative to wood railing is composite lumber and PVC railing. [3] [4 ...

5. Baluster - Wikipedia

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   Common materials used in its construction are wood, stone, and less frequently metal and ceramic. A group of balusters supporting a handrail, coping, or ornamental detail is known as a balustrade. [1] [2] The term baluster shaft is used to describe forms such as a candlestick, upright furniture support, and the stem of a brass chandelier.

6. Newel - Wikipedia

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   It can also refer to an upright post that supports and/or terminates the handrail of a stair banister (the "newel post"). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In stairs having straight flights it is the principal post at the foot of the staircase, but the term can also be used for the intermediate posts on landings and at the top of a staircase.

7. Escalator - Wikipedia

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   Wooden treads on a 1930s Otis escalator, ... especially when stepping onto the moving stairs. Occasionally a handrail moves at a slightly different speed from the ...