This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to bolster a wobbly post with a single screw. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping for How to Repair a Loose Newel Post:
– brace, made from scrap wood to press post tightly against stair tread
– extra-long, flat-head screw, used to fasten newel post to stair tread
– wood putty, used to conceal screw head
– 150-grit sandpaper, for smoothing the wood putty
– orimer and paint, used to finish area around the puttied screw head
Tools for How to Repair a Loose Newel Post:
– drill/driver, for drilling holes and driving screw
– layout square, used as a drilling guide
– standard-length twist-drill bit, used to start screw-shank clearance hole
– spade bit, for drilling counterbore hole
– extra-long bits, used to bore screw-shank-clearance and screw-pilot holes
– putty knife, used to apply wood putty
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That post was definitely not made by Norm.
Chainsaw.
Very good tip and repair instruction. Please Thank Tom for us!
Gotta love those Headlok screws. The Timberloks too.
I WOULD OF SQUIRTED SOME GLUE THE STAIR TREAD N NEWL POST
Thanks
Any idea how to repair when the newell post is not adjacent to a stair and at the top of the staircase? It stands flush on the floor - would I take the same approach and just try to angle the screw into the floor, or am I better taking apart the newell and pulling it up to see what's going on underneath?
Thank You, this was a big help!
i would have screwed the bottom of the post too for an even stronger fix.
at the very end it was still loose.