Bannisters, sanding and painting!!

WillowCat

Depending on the design of your stairs it might be easier to remove the spindles and get them dip stripped.

I've just paid £1.10 per spindle (we had 22 stripped), it only took 15 minutes to carefully use a wide chisel to prise away the D shaped moulding along the edge of our landing, the spindles then came out sideways with a tap of a mallet. We left one spindle in place where the rail on the landing turns 90 degrees, in order to support the handrail in place while the rest of the spindles were not there.

They've come back from the strippers absolutely clean and were well worth the money.

Obviously if you have kids this might be a bit dodgy but it's certainly the easiest way to go.

murphydog999

WillowCat wrote: »

Depending on the design of your stairs it might be easier to remove the spindles and get them dip stripped.

I've just paid £1.10 per spindle (we had 22 stripped), it only took 15 minutes to carefully use a wide chisel to prise away the D shaped moulding along the edge of our landing, the spindles then came out sideways with a tap of a mallet. We left one spindle in place where the rail on the landing turns 90 degrees, in order to support the handrail in place while the rest of the spindles were not there.

They've come back from the strippers absolutely clean and were well worth the money.

Obviously if you have kids this might be a bit dodgy but it's certainly the easiest way to go.

Thats not a bad idea, but I asked my chippie yesterday about taking them out and he reckoned it would be a tricky job (victorian staircase, no handy rebates), new ones are only £2-odd on ebay, but by the time I'd paid for his labour it was looking too expensive again.

ormus

diable wrote: »

I bought a Dewalt one for £19.99 nah na na nah........ ;o))))

not 12 yrs ago you didnt.