DIY Handrail Installation

0:12 brent here with bring your own tools on today's episode if you want to see how we install this beautiful exterior hand drill and the reasoning behind why we did it keep on watching let it started now the one nice thing about being a youtuber is that you get a lot of boxes but you don't normally get a box like this nicely signatured and i always appreciate that now as for the product i may be re-revamping my house numbers but for today's project we are utilizing bold modern handrail that is three feet long with their minimal bracket style now the handrail itself is 16 gauge tube steel with black powder coat and a satin finish now for this project i am using their standard three foot

0:58 section but they do custom sizing from three feet all the way up to 16 feet long depending on your span now there's a few things that i love in this world but few that compare to a high quality steel part like the brackets that were featured in a recent byt on my wood interior handrail but that company bold manufacturing loved that product so much they wanted me to do one on their exterior projects so let's get this thing installed now i have featured this front entryway in a number of different projects already on my channel however i have not finished it out yet so i'm going to be working on trying to completely renovate this entire space now with this being a hand drill it

1:43 needs to be decode which basically means the height of the handrail top needs to be between 34 and 38 inches now i'm setting at 36 just because why not just be right in the middle now the easiest way to account for the proper height and angle is taking your tape measure and at the very front lip of the bottom step as well as the top step you measure 36 inches then i proceed to taking my six foot level and just making sure that that is properly straight from the very front of the step lip now as for connecting these two heights together i would suggest utilizing a chalk line in order to connect because one it's very easy to have a perfectly straight line all the way across

2:28 and two it's easily removable now for handrails it's very important to have proper support and therefore hitting a stud is definitely more desirable than just wall anchoring it down luckily for me i did find one stud that was in perfect position for the top bracket now because i have wood siding it's hard to find a wood stud with a stud finder however that's why i went on the interior of the house and actually found where that stud is located and transferred it to the exterior of the house i then measured three and a half inches below the line of where the stud placement is going to be located and pre-drilled one of my holes just one i then fastened the far right

3:14 screw into position and actually tighten it down not all the way but enough to the point where it doesn't feel loose oh and i do suggest using a phillips head extension drive because it makes it a lot easier to get in between and not mar up the powder coat finish once i like the positioning of the handrail i then take a hand clamp and just clamp it down tight with the bracket i then proceed to position the bottom bracket where i want the placement to be and then pre-drill those holes just make sure you're visually inspecting your chalk line as it correlates to your handrail height because i want to make sure that it aligns with both the top and the bottom evenly now i'm increasing the whole size to 7 16 of an inch because we are going to be using a wall

4:01 anchor like this now this specific anchor is called a toggle bolt anchor and it provides a very strong hold to any application now the one thing you have to think about with this type of anchor system is the fact that you have to insert the anchor into the bracket first and then push it through because you can take these anchors out however once these anchors are in the wall and you remove the screw the clamshell side of the anchor will fall into the wall in won't be usable afterwards just gotta think about that one ahead of time i then proceed to fasten one side down and then bring the handrail up and fit it into position to the point where i want it perfectly aligned with the chalk line above once i like the overall alignment of the handrail top

4:47 i then proceed to tightening both anchors down fully and securely after i have that taken care of i then proceed to moving up to the top bracket and install the second fastener because the positioning of the handrail is where i want it exactly now the brackets also come with the proper sheet metal screws which basically means that you can tap it into place without having to pre-drill your holes for your metal handrail this is quite easy especially if you have an impact driver for your screws makes it a little bit easier oh and as you're watching this don't mind my serious face as you can see right there and right there yeah it's uh it's funny what you can capture

5:32 on video if you're always recording yourself right now on a personal note with hardware like this i want it to blend in perfectly therefore i'm using a marker pen specifically designed to cover up metal like this however it's very hard to get in the grooves of the phillips head therefore i made a perfect little cone shape out of one piece of paper and a piece of tape all i have to do is pinpoint it exactly where i want it on the brackets spray a little black spray paint just to cover up the inside of the phillips head and the cone shape perfectly covers up any of the over spray but guess what after we have that taken care of we are done

6:20 sometimes simplicity is just gorgeous and that's how i feel about this project from the quality of the build to the ease of installation it's very nice and i'll leave a link in the description box below on where to actually purchase this product if interested but let's get to the real reason why we actually installed this in the first place and as for the reason why we're doing this well say hello to the newest member of the byot family isla oh hi eila and as you can see she has her swag [Music] and as you can see very important cargo right kona that's right

7:08 i sure do love my drone shots but man it does get sketchy sometimes