I chose to make alot of these slides about in shop fabrication since the GCs on this project, Reveler Development handled the installation of these. This is the obtuse angle of one of 11 guardrails made for this project.
This slide shows the lower horizontal rail being fit up to one of the legs. Making the "fish-mouth" shape cope in the pipe is important. Its easier to get exact dimensions, it looks much nicer and its much easier to weld together.
One of the 11 guard rails after fitting and welding all of the pickets in place.
After contour grinding, those corners are as smooth as glass. Spatter removal is tedious because of all of the pickets but it's important that no weld spatter is left behind for safety purposes and for looks as well.
Mac's Misc. Metals provided a coat of primer for all guard and hand railings for these condos, but Reveler did the final paint.
Here's a stack of those guard rails all cleaned up and ready to go for primer and then off to the jobsite.
Each condo needed 3 handrails. This is the beginning elbow return of one after welding
This shows the upper landing horizontal with an elbow return into the wall as well as one of 5 wall brackets. Each elbow return requires an end cap. I'd rather not take my chances with open ends.
Here's a picture of 4 out of 33 handrails for these units. This was after contour grinding and before primer
This delivery consisted of 5 wall rails and 2 guard rails. I provided them little by little as they needed them.
5 guard rails after their guys did the final paint but before installation.
Here's one guardrail after they installed it. The cover picture of this slideshow is another angle of one of these.
Here's one of the handrails after finish paint and installation. Very dull lighting so I edited the brightness to show the top landing a little better.
There was an old brick building next door to the condos that needed a pair of railings for the rear entrance. This shows the fabrication of the front return of one of the two.
Here's the upper return being fabricated on one of the two railings.
They had me do the final paint on these. After priming them, we went with flat black.
Conditions were pretty tough, but just clear the snow and make it happen!
This is the right side after installation. It looked really good in front of their prefabricated guard that they installed previously.
It was a small battle. It felt good cleaning up my tools after this one.
Here's a perspective walking down these concrete steps with the new pair of railings in place. If you need railings for your residence or commercial project, drop me an email at info@macsmiscmetals.com
