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installing a stair rail to insulation slabs

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  • 16-07-2018 9:14pm
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    jeepcj
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭


    Hi all, looking to install and stair rail but the walls have been previously insulated with 50mm insulation boards. Can you just install the stair rail on top of the insulating boards with long inserts that go through the plasterboard and into the blocks?


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    Jennehy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    No more nails would be a serious product. We hang radiators with it.


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    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,072 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Jennehy wrote: »
    No more nails would be a serious product. We hang radiators with it.

    Holding a stair rail to insulation???? Not a hope and downright dangerous.

    That is your only option OP, getting fixings into the wall.


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    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,856 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Holding a stair rail to insulation???? Not a hope and downright dangerous.

    That is your only option OP, getting fixings into the wall.

    OP it would probably be easier to fix a piece of wood to the slabs using express nails into the wall behind the slabs, then fix the handrail brackets to the wood.


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    jeepcj
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭jeepcj


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    OP it would probably be easier to fix a piece of wood to the slabs using express nails into the wall behind the slabs, then fix the handrail brackets to the wood.

    Yes thats what I was thinking, probably the easiest and most secure way to do it.


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