Removing the Railing on the Landing

Problems with the railing on the landing:

1.       It is too short

2.       It is going to be a pain to sand around

It needed to be removed but for safety sake (whatever safety it provides) I wanted to wait as long as possible to remove it. And I didn’t know how to get it out with the railing in tack.  It was recommended that I save the actual rail and reconfigure it to sit about a foot higher, and I do like reusing materials. 

So while I painted a second coat on the winter room, Bryna took a look at it.  She concluded that getting the spindles out in tack could ruin the steps. So she suggested cutting them in half with a saw.

This worked very well.

Then the spindles could be pulled out by hand, leaving nails sticking out.  But that will be fixed in due time.